Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children) which sent him to the U. S. at eleven, at the behest of a U. S. bishop whom he served at Mass. Bishop Schrembs is the hierarchy's ablest hymn-writer, hymn-singer, pianist and organist. His elevation to archbishop, symbolized by a lamb's-wool pallium (resembling a stole) which will be sent him from Rome, does not carry with it a like promotion for his diocese. His title will be : Archbishop Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland...
...Jumped on Bloomingdale Bros., Manhattan department store. FTC ordered it to stop referring to goods only partially made of wool as "wool...
...materials which Nazis have developed to take the place of imported raw materials. Last week many a German enjoyed a quiet chuckle when he found in his mailbox a fake bill from an industrious gagster who "demanded" payment for a suit of clothes made of wood fabric instead of wool...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
...effect, the plan was to improve the balance of trade (difference between exports and imports) by reducing imports. Applied in practice for the first time fortnight ago, exchange control appeared virtually to bar all imports from Japan (perhaps in retaliation for Japan's refusal to buy New Zealand wool), and cut other imports from 20% to 80%. British imports were cut least. The policy had the same effect as extremely high tariffs, except that restraining pressure was put on local importers rather than on foreign businesses...