Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Woolen Co., which earned $21.86 a common share last year on a stock which sold at only $33 last January, slumped 31% during the first nine months of this year to $11,257,600. Railroads were still having their troubles. And aircraft companies, as expected, were in dismal shape. Douglas Aircraft, which usually manages to show a profit, has lost $1,170,037 so far this year...
Harris, who has long since tired of telling folks that Wishbone is no nickname, is the son of a prosperous St. Paul woolen merchant. The year after his graduation in 1936, he picked up a beauty-supply business for $5,000. In 1941, when cold waves began to attract attention in beauty shops, Harris began wholesaling them. Two years later, some of his pioneering competitors began experimenting with home-wave kits. The first one, which sold for 59?, was a big seller, but it nearly ruined the market because it was unsatisfactory. Harris kept trying, finally came up with Toni...
Forstmann Woolen...
...take care of everything." The wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung neatly in the closet...
...California, farmers who used to buy cheap cars on credit were plunking down cash for Buicks and Chryslers. In Nebraska, a farmer's wife who used to lay out $5 every six months for a cotton dress walked out of an Omaha department store with two smart woolen suits at $89.95 each...