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Word: wooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Faint Edge | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...wool, from 34? to 25.5? per lb. ¶ Tungsten ore, from 50? to 38? per lb. ¶ Chinaware, from 45% to 25% of the value of the decorated items; from 40% to 25% on undecorated ware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Great Dream | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...little boy's suit knitted in green wool from Miss A. B. Esau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Curiosity Shop | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Winter of Death? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...some Brule River promoter give General Eisenhower a fast shuffle with phony fish scales? If the General himself actually said that scant two-pounder weighed 5½ [TIME, Sept. 15], somebody must have pulled the wool (Cap, Field, Wool, O.D.) over his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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