Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...
Allied Chemical $13.67 $1.35 $9.67 American Locomotive 5.33 1.30 4.12 American Woolen 30.50 5.00 11.23 Corn Products 3.59 0.95 3.38 Crane Co. 5.36 1.70 1.18 Douglas Aircraft 36.22 3.00 30.29 Goodrich Co. 8.29 4.60 5.02 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 12.80 3.40 4.68 Mack Truck 9.21 1.67 4.93 Montgomery Ward 5.11 0.96 4.01 National Cash Register 1.02 0.74 2.00 National Dairy 1.43 0.57 1.97 Sears Roebuck 9.62 1.17 6.35 United Aircraft 23.29 1.88 6.29 United Fruit 2.22 1.03 4.25 United States Steel...
...store-buyer picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many storekeepers were even placing Christmas orders...
...persuade their customers to buy now what they won't need for months. And: "It's simply grand the way the public is cooperating. It appears that almost anything made of wool just walks out of the store. Some stores are now doing more business in woolen lines in a week than they did in a month a year...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...