Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost sales $1,000,000 this year. Adolph Rosenberg and his brother Samuel, 57, a Universal vice president, did not strike it rich in matches until after they had burned their fingers elsewhere. Adolph quit high school to work in the piece-goods business, later set up a woolen company with Sam, lost it, turned to manufacturing a mothproofing liquid, and lost that, too. Then the Rosenberg boys borrowed $100,000 from friends (among them: two of Detroit's famed Fisher brothers), hired 15 people and started making matches in a loft in downtown St. Louis. But they...
...good for Australia, such prices were bad news to U.S. woolen mills, which can expect even higher prices this fall when they start bidding for fine-grade apparel wool (last week's auction was mostly limited to grade B stock). The U.S. will import more than 300 million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready...
...Woolen Socks. Two years ago, after nearly two decades as an art instructor, Chapin gave up teaching to try what few artists west of New York have succeeded in achieving: supporting his wife and daughters (aged 14 and 16) by his painting. Now he spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder...
Heavier clothing is necessary for the ocean voyage thus European climes require. The shrewd traveler takes a tweed or woolen suit and overcoat with him just for the high seas and stores them away when he lands until September...
...possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt Lenox to get . . . coarse woolen to wrap her in, and then to pack her securely in a wooden...