Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This country is more poorly prepared than it was in 1941. We have delayed all-out mobilization. The Administration has fiddled with war preparations. The Munitions Board has fallen down in its job of stockpiling-we are short of wool and even of cotton...
...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...
Made from natural gas, salt and air, dynel can be dyed, woven with other fabrics or used alone. Davidson says it is washable, mothproof, almost shrinkproof, and resistant to strong chemicals. At $1.25 a lb., manufacturers may find dynel a cheap substitute for wool, which, for similar use, sells at $2.15 to $3.50 a lb. Since dynel orders already far outstrip the company's annual production of 2,000,000 lbs., work was started last week to double the output. If dynel catches on, Union Carbide hopes to expand to as much as 40 million lbs. a year...
...peace talk was good for stocks, it was bad news for war-inflated commodities. At week's end grains, wool, hides and cocoa went tumbling in the futures market. So did cotton, which a few days earlier had reached its highest price (44.14? a Ib.) since the Civil War. The Dow-Jones futures index plunged 5.71 points, a record break for a single day, and lowest since...
...There was a mouse in that place-what he ate and how he kept alive I don't know. He kept nibbling at our hair. Next morning we greased ourselves again, wrapped wool rags around us and started off again." It was 10 o'clock when they at last reached the wrecked plane...