Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue had come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
...Paul's Cathedral (high altar smashed by falling masonry, but the lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire was hit, its headmaster killed. The Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that Lambeth Palace, his London residence, had been demolished several days prior, same day Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after...
...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...
...Detroit needs for its iron foundries. Another is the foundries themselves, which are being rushed with Defense orders. Still another is the rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry, for which business is too good for comfort. Zincmen like to sell about 600,000 tons a year, at a tariff-protected price. Their present production rate is 748,000 tons, with another 41,000 tons...
...from being interested in spectacles and rock wool, the country (and its newspapers) became interested in nothing but defense. Arnold and his men therefore took stock of themselves. Overnight their patent quest, without changing its quarry, gave it a new name: Bottlenecks...