Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowds at the great Mass, eleven people fainted. In the procession marched some 1,000, among them an academic section escorting Vice-Chancellor Will Spens of Cambridge University; acolytes, choir-singers, Sunday-school children; Cowley Fathers in black cassocks; black-habited Holy Cross Monks; Franciscans in grey wool habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon...
...There is no question, that recognition will mean valuable trade agreements for the United States, not only in the capital goods industries, but in those of wheat and wool. Russia and the United States, although they are apparently destined to be the two great competitors in world trade, are at present logical markets for each other. Russia exports oil, wood pulp, and matches into the United States, and imports the machinery which may some day make her industrially self-sufficient...
Nearly, but not quite, for besides being the biggest of all codes in point of persons affected, it involved consequences even more far-reaching, politically as well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...
...North Carolina one textile mill closed, five others announced they would close this week. Reason given: With the 4.2? processing taxes and higher NRA wages they cannot continue manufacturing unless sales keep up-which they have not. Said the American Wool & Cotton Reporter last week: "Business is better. The mills are running well. But there hasn't been anything sold now for three weeks. The mills bought raw material to get in ahead of inflation, the garment manufacturers bought piece goods for the same reason, but neither are mills buying raw material now nor garment manufacturers piece goods...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...