Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks before war was declared, after six weeks of intensive effort, Baruch, commissioner in charge of raw materials, had set up organizations for total war: industrial committees of leaders in the great materials groups: leather, rubber, steel, wool, nickel, oil, zinc, coal, spruce wood. Then, at a time when War Department officers had no plans, even hypothetical, for the organization and equipment of an army of any size, the Advisory Commission began calculating what an army of 1,000,000 men would need...
...House he has plugged a theme dear to cattle-State politicians: protect the U. S. livestock industry by keeping out South American meat. His amendment prohibits use of any part of the appropriation for food or clothing produced outside the U. S., thus applies to Australian wool as well as to Argentine beef. Says Congressman Scrugham: "I come from a district dependent almost entirely on beef and wool. I'm sent here to protect the interests of those growers. If I don't, they'll kick my -." To Good Neighborites, purchase of Argentine canned beef...
...made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
Sabotage groups in America are unbelievably strong, Shallenberger feels. They are tremendously well organized and never do anything until they are sure of its success. "Fifth Columnists are smooth operators and will have little trouble pulling the wool over many American eyes." he stated...
Last week the Maritime Commission received from the Office of Production Management a list of "essential" and "nonessential" imports which soon will be translated into cargo priorities. Classed as essential were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed...