Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysteries of Pink (as opposed to Red) salmon. U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries O'Malley officially opened the campaign with a lecture on the Pink salmon, obligingly giving special attention to its eatable qualities. He pointed at what all experienced salmon-eaters know: that no dyed-in-the-wool salmon-devourer will ever be afflicted with "deficiency diseases" (scurvy, beriberi, and goitre) because salmon flesh contains a high percentage of iodine, best prophylactic against such diseases. An orchestra played sea songs and chanteys "to carry to listeners a romantic conception, of the salmon industry." There were no references...
...Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for?
...Wool worth...
Last week the wool ranchers and wool manufacturers bombarded the Ways & Means Committee about Schedule 11, the wool tariff. Count through the alphabet to the eleventh letter and it is K? the famous Schedule K of 1909, the issue on which the Democrats carried the House election...
Events in U. S. shipping circles last week recalled the situation in the old nursery rhyme that begins "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?" It will be recalled that the black sheep had three bags full, one for the master, one for the dame, but none for the little boy that lived down the lane. In last week's modernization of Mother Goose, the U. S. Post Office and the U. S. Shipping Board were accused of being the black sheep. The wool-bags were mailbags, and the Cunard Line was the little boy who got nothing...