Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wool Rags (Lb.) 7½¢ 8¢ 18?...
...Wool, Scoured (Lb.) . . . . . 31¢ 34¢ 37?...
...events apparently justify the repeated warning of financial critics that we have been 'living in a fool's paradise. . . ." Probable decline in exports for the current year (1929-30) of as much as £30,000,000. . . . Undoubtedly the chief depressing influences were the decline in the price of wool and . . . a pronounced tightening in the international money markets [which] has seriously affected the capacity of London to supply Australian Governments with their usual quota of loan funds?from £25,000,000 to £30,000,000 per annum in recent years...
...Rock Business. South Africa is found to be in a period of "transition from post-War prosperity to bedrock normal business," having suffered like Australia from the fall of wool prices. Moreover the African "diamond market immediately became depressed" after "the great financial debacle in America" and "inevitably exercised an adverse influence on [South African] commerce and industry generally...
...presiding officer?an odd fellow who technically does not sit in the chamber while he presides, but must be just outside within an imaginary circle on a large red cloth "sack" or wool-stuffed cushion...