Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks like any four-months-old Jane...
...badly, and textile fibers. He would get most of Russia's rubber output but Russia produces only about 70% of her own rubber requirements (synthetically, and from the dandelion-like kok-sagyz plant). He would get only about a quarter of Russia's cotton, and very little wool unless he lets most of his Russian slaves freeze...
...shortages already upon us are those in aluminum, magnesium, copper and nickel. There will be hardly enough aluminum to build the planes we know we'll need, let alone supply other military needs. . . . We have in this country only about a half-year's supply of rubber. . . . Wool and tin are also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia...
...cotton on which its great textile industry depends, Japan must get all her supplies from India, the U.S., Brazil, Peru, China. Wool must be 99% imported from Australia, the Union of South Africa, England...
...foreign trade, the Nazis developed a "system of living on their debts." South Africa sent Germany its wool clip for three years before realizing the locomotives, etc. promised in payment were never going to arrive...