Word: woolen
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...must supervise their manufacture. So when he could not buy products that reached his standard, he made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other retail business has done this so thoroughly and so successfully...
...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...
...TIME May 31 [The White House Week], it was with interest that I noted that Mrs. Coolidge was the recipient of a woolen dress from a delegation of "14 Italian women," while "twelve Hungarian ladies" represented another presentation party...
...Coolidge received 14 Italian women and from their hands a hand-spun, hand-woven woolen dress made by the Mothers' Club of an industrial school in Boston. Twelve Hungarian ladies from Cleveland presented her with a hand-made lace centrepiece...
...most marvelous things about the whole discovery," said Professor Pelliot, "is the remarkable way in which the large numbers of very perishable materials such as woolen and silk textiles, and even furs have been preserved. It is particularly extraordinary when we realize that they are in this state of preservation in spite...