Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss's pet from the start. Boyer blossomed in the F. T. S. He took to such brain-crackers as how to manufacture synthetic wool from soybeans, a type of problem that made experts stare blankly but were longtime reveries of Motor-maker Ford. In the summer of 1930 Ford built him a three-story frame laboratory behind the Museum in Greenfield Village...
Nanking University, now moved some 900 miles west to Chengtu, has faced similar problems. Its organizers have taught thousands of refugee peasants to help themselves and China by training them to work portable bamboo spinning wheels, spin wool yarn for army blankets. Only outside materials the program needs are steel for spindles and aluminum for spinning forks. These come from shot-down Japanese airplanes. Thus far the supply of metal has been quite adequate...
Next morning another colleague began to tickle Dr. Head's hand with cotton wool, fine hairs, hot and cold needles. He marked out the areas insensitive to pain and touch, took full notes on Dr. Head's sensations. It took several years for all feeling to return, but the arm healed perfectly...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
...Japan, The Netherlands East Indies would, if cut off, leave the U. S. with less than a year's supply of rubber and not much more tin. Rubber futures jittered upwards to 20.4? a lb. in U. S. markets last week; black pepper to 3.86? a lb. Wool futures also rose to $1.175 a lb., implicating Australia. Unquoted on any organized market, but nonetheless crucial to U. S. defense, was quinine, of which the U. S. has none too much on hand. Practically all cinchona bark (from which quinine is made) comes from The Netherlands East Indies...