Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual businessman to sell out for a relatively low capital-gains tax and retire with a fortune. As a prime example of how mergers worked in 1955, Textron, Inc., after years of trouble, merged with Robbins Mills for its modern, high-capacity plants, added on American Woolen Co. for its $30 million tax loss carry-forward. Result: the new Textron American, Inc. boosted not only its textile business but expanded into electronics, machine parts, upholstery, and turned a $5.1 million profit for igss's first three quarters v. a $16.6 million loss the year before...
...double existence of a Wellesley girl is also reflected in the way she dresses. "You need two kinds of outfits around here," one junior says: "A woolen dress for weekends, knee socks, bermuda shorts, and an old shirt for the rest of the week...
...took my woolen wrappers, and a pair of mockasins, and tied up some dry clothes, and a pair of shoes and stockings ... I had my big butcher in my belt, and I had a pair of dressed buckskin breeches on . . . We shouldered our guns, blankets, and provisions, and trudged merrily...
...agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty of money to spend on oysters. Scottish salmon and French wine, served in Leo's nightclubs. The Belgians drive American cars, particularly Buicks, and wear colorful combinations of sun helmet, khaki shirt, pink shorts, bright green woolen socks and beige suede shoes. "They have two kinds of conversation," gibes an English-born resident of Leo. "One is an offer, the other a counter-offer...
...Responsory(1952) by Rev. Russell Woolen ranked highest among the contemporary works. Taken from the Matins of Holy Thursday, it is unmistakably oriented toward the solemnity of Catholic worship. It is rather his modernistic freedom of line and rhythm that can suggest, without limitation, a style that was already perfect for hundred years...