Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessmen are often confused by the contradictory actions of the U.S. trustbusters. Last week they had even more reason for confusion. The Federal Trade Commission ruled last month that a merger would not tend automatically to create a monopoly even though it gave 45.6% of the household steel-wool market to one company, Brillo Manufacturing Co. But last week the Justice Department sued to break a deal that would give 21% of the detergent market to Lever Bros...
...Wool & Things...
...Check the Wool." During this summer's siege against juvenile delinquency, a key police department unit is the youth squad, 144 detectives who cruise New York City's five boroughs in unmarked sedans and concentrate on teen-age activities and spots of action. Routinely the youth squad checks bars for underage patrons, community centers, parks, dances and picnics for teen-age trouble. Swiftly they check out tips on approaching "rumbles," i.e., fights between New York's organized gangs. After one such tour with Deputy Inspector Peter Costello, youth squad commander, and Detectives William Kelly and Frank Rochman...
Turning to Detective Rochman, Costello ordered: "Check the wool on 'em, Frank." Rochman ran his hands through the hair of both the boys and girls, looking for concealed razor blades, found none. The cops rolled...
Nowhere was the soul-searching more noteworthy than among Britain's dyed-in-the-wool Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough...