Word: woolen
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...store-buyer picnic. Fearing bare shelves when their stores were customer-packed, storekeepers last summer told their buyers to start buying more and buy it faster. They did. First they bought "hard" lines-radios, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, rubber goods, bicycles, typewriters, etc. Then they rushed after "soft" lines-woolen, cotton and rayon goods, stockings, dresses, men's suits, shoes, hats. To make sure they got enough, buyers quit the long-standing practice of buying only 60-90 days ahead, started buying for six to eight months. Last week many storekeepers were even placing Christmas orders...
...persuade their customers to buy now what they won't need for months. And: "It's simply grand the way the public is cooperating. It appears that almost anything made of wool just walks out of the store. Some stores are now doing more business in woolen lines in a week than they did in a month a year...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...
...four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing...
...message of cheer. After a perfunctory mention of "the accomplishments of our Army" (now retreating in Russia), the little Minister got down to business. What he wanted was Christmas presents for the soldiers on the Eastern Front: overshoes, stockings, woolen underwear, furs, blankets, gloves, ear muffs-anything, in fact, that would turn the keen winds of the Russian winter...