Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramadan means "intense heat." Though it has no fixed date in the Western calendar and may occur even in winter, this year's Ramadan of 29 days appropriately broke right into the hottest summer that Egypt remembers. The damp caused by the flooding Nile spread low clouds like woolen blankets over Egypt. Tempers rose, gharry drivers and porters spit abuse at one another, fists went into action on the slightest provocation. Even unfasting, infidel Christians seemed unduly cross...
Rationing of woolens for civilians may not be necessary despite the year-long cries of "Wolf! Wolf!" Since the Truman Committee clamored for an inventory of Army textile stocks, the Quartermaster Corps decided last week to clamp a brake on its buying. For four months, beginning September, woolen mills will be permitted to cut their scheduled Army production by as much as 50%. (The Army orders are deferred to the first part...
This temporary reconversion may result in a windfall to civilians of as much as 24 million yards of woolen and worsted fabrics, some of it for pre-winter-rush delivery...
...civilians' gain is the U.S. wool growers' loss. Sheepmen have enjoyed two years of Government orders, because domestic wool has been preferred in filling Army orders. This large demand sent U.S. wool prices up 33% from 1939 before ceilings were clamped on. Now the woolen mills, trapped in a price squeeze between OPA ceilings on finished goods for consumers, and high domestic wool prices, will use more of the enormous stocks of lower-cost Australian raw wool that cram U.S. warehouses...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...