Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present instance, all the decent, law-abiding element have the wool pulled over their eyes by some process such at the Watch and Ward game. And so the farce goes...
Once Senator Smoot tried to start a woolen industry in Provo, Utah. Business genius though he is, he soon gave up. Why? 1) Because it cost him $2.25 a hundred to get wool from San Francisco whereas Bostonians got wool from San Francisco for 75c. 2) Because Bostonians could ship their finished product to Chicago for 50c whereas it cost him $3.40 from Provo...
...this sound and simple reason for the difference in rates between certain long and short hauls does not lessen the grievance of Arizona milk canners in competition with New York, does not enable Senator Smoot to build up teeming wool industries in yawning Utah...
...Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool-carding used as a substitute for feathers and horsehair...
Other merchandisers gave their analyses of general conditions. They found that the railroads Lad just ended a happy year; that the automobile industry had again confounded pessimists; that 1925 set another record for building; that steel, silk, wool, cotton and rayon were prospering. Then a banker, O. H. Cheney, Vice President of the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, oriented once and for all the importance of the dry-goods industry, and answered those supercilious ones who have jeered at dry-goods men. "I think," he said, "that the department store might be considered the greatest single factor in raising...