Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, the President downed a breakfast of grapefruit, a four-minute egg, toast & coffee, put on two shirts (wool over cotton) and, despite chilly weather, hiked along the Key West sea wall before the town was awake. The drizzle ruled out his swim at Truman Beach, but he spent the morning indoors beside the phonograph, listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Chopin's Polonaise and Brahms's Symphony...
...materials and food are costing Britain 40% more than they did before Korea; the prices of her exports are up only 25%. Uneven worldwide inflation means that Britain must exchange almost twice as many automobiles and tweeds as she did for the same amount of wheat and wool she bought a year ago. ¶ Britain is not producing enough coal and steel to supply both her export industries and the rearmament drive. Once the world's largest coal exporter, she is now carrying coals to Newcastle, and this winter will again import coal from the U.S. The rest...
...Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...
...World War II's end, when gloomy Sewell Avery began predicting collapse, Baker set his sights on expansion, began adding more new products. Most recent: rock wool "blankets" for home insulation and a simple roll-on method of refinishing old walls with colored plaster. This year, after spending $41 million on new plants in the postwar years, Baker expects his sales to reach a record $90 million (almost half of U.S. Gypsum), although taxes will trim his net from 1950's $9,200,000 to about $6,600,000. Despite rearmament's curbs on building, he expects...