Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back up their inflated price." Many a merchant blames his competitors, says he would like to stop, "but I have to do it to stay in business." In rare instances, store executives are hoodwinked by their own buyers. One San Francisco department store found its buyer offering ladies' wool coats at "$14.99, formerly $19.95 to $25.95." It turned out that every other store regularly sold them at $14.99. The buyer's excuse: he wanted to make his department look good...
...ceremonies looked into the Pontiff's eyes and intoned the ancient warning: "Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi" (Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world). In the course of the Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting the wine to be used, as reminder of the days when Popes often died by poison. At the conclusion of the Mass a silk purse containing 25 ancient coins was presented to the Pontiff...
Canada sells Ireland about $10 million worth of goods annually. Ireland, in turn, sold Canada only $415,000 worth of chocolate, wool, textiles and glassware in 1956; last year Irish trade worked up to $1,200,000. but the imbalance was still at a ratio of about 8 to 1. And Ireland is only one of many. Of the 125 entities with which Canada trades, no fewer than 86 have an unfavorable Canadian trade balance. Among the more spectacular: Bermuda (purchases: $3,000,000. sales: $248,000), Union of South Africa (purchases: $48.4 million, sales: $6,800,000). The Netherlands...
...threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...July a seven-man team from the U.S.A.F. School of Aviation Medicine reached the rock-strewn slopes and box canyons of Colorado's Mt. Evans (14,260 ft.) and there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism can be preconditioned for the peculiar conditions and hazards...