Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolivia at Government invitation and expense. About 20% spoke Spanish and wore European dress. The rest spoke only the ancient Indian languages, Quechua and Aymara. They wore native clothes-wide, multicolored belts, bright ponchos. Some of the men wore flat hats like Catholic priests. Others had "lluchus" (knitted woolen helmets) against the biting winds of the altiplano...
...crowd one woman stood out, a tall blond woman in a grey-green woolen suit with a green alpine hat, woolen stockings, and heavy walking shoes. Despite the pack on her back, she walked erect...
...million pairs of army boots, 97 million yards of cotton cloth, 50 million yards of woolen cloth, 58 million yards of webbing, 24,000 tons of abrasives...
Windsor shopkeepers could not complain about the buying spree; a sale is a sale, and in normal times they rely heavily on Detroiters as purchasers of jewelry, furs, woolen clothing and blankets, imported china. Windsor housewives wailed that Americans were not only greedy but "pushy." But customs men claimed that more & more Canadian women go into the U.S. for such goods as infants' wear, towels, women's underwear (all scarce in Canada), that they frequently evade Canadian customs rules by wearing their purchases home...
Then they were stripped and searched again. Cook had somehow picked up $145 in currency and a steel pick. After that jailers took away their shoes, underwear, furniture, and left them in bare cells with nothing but coveralls, woolen socks, and a blanket and toothbrush apiece. Their meals were served on paper plates, eaten with wooden spoons...