Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain and the Wool-Hats. Then came an unprecedented omen. Georgia politicos say that "the sun never sets on England and the rain never falls on Talmadge." But now, as the Governor turned the first page, rain fell in torrents. Talmadge threw away his melting manuscript, improvised under an umbrella in the downpour for 20 minutes, finally gave...
What became of the wool shortage...
...There exists today in the Government stockpile of wool imported from Australia and South America a surplus bigger than any which has ever before existed in this country," the National Wool Growers' Association announced last week. "While the wool textile industry has been working at twice the rate it has ever operated before, available supplies of wool have increased threefold. Available supplies of all wool fabrics have indeed been so plentiful recently that some clothing manufacturers have actually canceled their orders...
Biggest reason for this surprise stockpile is that many a freighter hauling men & munitions to Australia comes back cargo-full of wool. Wool supplies available this year are now estimated at 1,100,000,000 lb.-twice a normal year's consumption. But even this mountain of wool may not be enough: some of it is earmarked for Lend-Lease, and outfitting a new soldier takes about 200 lb. of wool, whereas civilians usually get along on five...
...stuff had to be bought and it had to be shipped. There had to be wool belly-bands for troops in the tropics, fur for Arctic troops, plenty of woolens for the British Isles. There had to be food for all in the style to which U.S. soldiers are accustomed -and lemon extract had to get to Anchorage and Eritrea on schedule, along with the lumber for barracks and gasoline for the mess stoves...