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...Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen Co.; and the Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio...
Combat Cargo's priority system was a flexible one, permitting fast change when the tactical situation required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport...
After two months of relaxing at private and public parties, it was back to work again for Madam Minister Perle Mesta, who sailed off to Luxembourg with 1,500 pairs of woolen mittens and other Christmas gifts for orphans...
Hole in the Bucket. When he was eleven, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family penniless. His mother brought Robert and his sister (two years younger) back to New England. Grandfather Frost, an overseer in a Lawrence, Mass, woolen mill, received them without enthusiasm. "We were the hole in the bucket," says Frost. His mother went to work teaching school, and young Robert trudged to high school in his grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse...
...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...