Word: woolen
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...Indians begin making tomahawks. When the whites began selling horses to the Plains Indians, they became nomadic, gave up solid wood and mud architecture and fragile pottery for easily portable tepees, skin and feather ornaments. When Spaniards introduced sheep to the Southwest, the Navahos and Pueblos learned to weave woolen blankets. When, later, tourists demanded rugs, the Navahos, who had never used rugs in their lives, began making them by the thousand...
Last week Marathoner Cote lined up with ten challengers, dressed in woolen tights and wearing on their moccasined feet specially built racing snowshoes, narrower and lighter than ordinary ones. Three years ago, when Snowshoer Cote set a new world's record, the thermometer registered 10° below zero-and he crossed the finish line with partially frozen feet and knees. Last week it was warmer, and Cote was in less of a hurry. His winning time...
...shelter, for getting up early and eating "a good breakfast with some good American coffee" in his room at Claridge's, for taking good-humoredly his British valet's suggestion that he buy plenty of English-type white shirts without attached collars and get himself some long woolen underwear...
...spite of this, retail prices rose about 1% in 1940's first half. Main retail advances: bread (1? a loaf in northern cities) and woolen and silk apparel. Offsetting this over-all rise, home furnishing prices fell 2½% (paced by a 10% to 15% decline in refrigerators...
...wool was aggravated by lack of capacity for converting it into wool tops, from which worsted fabrics are made. Result: wool top prices rose considerably more than raw wool. By November, the pressure was moving onto the dyers and apparel makers, whose prices are so far little changed. The woolen industry planned on raising prices to apparel manufacturers by 10%, if the Army wanted to outfit 1,300,000 men. The industry talked of doubling the price increase and of rationing civilian supplies as well, if orders came to outfit...