Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excluded from these allotments were importers of goods Germany must have: wool, cotton, hides, furs, basic metals. But these importers are under direct Government supervision. Hence, last week's reductions at once set up a counter-wall against the boycott and tightened Nazidom's hold on private German business...
...Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly off as any of the cities of the South, and in no other province is the break between Socialist workmen and Fascist merchants and manufacturers more obvious. Correspondent Stowe talked to one Paul Bourson, who said...
...none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets in the Far East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England and Australia do not wel come a policy compelling them...
Hannah M. Egan, Ph. D. is grey, matronly, stoutish, wears dark wool dresses and is Acting Dean of the largest woman's college in the world-New York City's Municipal Hunter. This week the city's Board of Higher Education was to consider giving her a permanent appointment as Dean. At least 250 of Hunter's some 10,000 students do not want Hannah M. Egan to receive the appointment. That was the number who had signed a petition against it last fortnight when President Eugene A. Colligan made them stop...
...claimed for U. S. tourists' ears that some Torgsin prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate caramels, 23?; 1 lb. of canned meat, 12?; ½ lb. of black caviar, $1.15; a cotton dress, from 68? to $3.20; a beret, 16?; wool mittens, 16?; a towel, 22?; a handkerchief, 3?; a pair of men's boots, $3.32; a frying...