Word: woolen
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When the hearing adjourned they crowded around while friends were wrapping the head of the House of Morgan in his woolen muffler. Why would the destruction of the leisure class mean the end of civilization? Who were the leisure class...
...glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother went out to do white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing...
...week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among them 50 woolen shawls, 1,800 yards of cloth and "quantities" of quilts, tablecloths, boots, shoes and rubbers which they planned to resell at a profit...
...Justices took a hand at questioning him. Asked Conservative Justice McReynolds: ''Who fixed the [processing] tax, Mr. Solicitor?" "Congress fixes the formula," Mr. Reed read aloud the language of the law. "The farmer buys all sorts of things," snorted Mr. Justice McReynolds. "He buys silk stockings and woolen coats. Which is it that controls...
Since Messrs. Noah and Warner moved into American Woolen, management costs have been cut $5,000,000, unprofitable plants sold, bonds and preferred stock retired, plant values written down to save taxes. But they are taking no chances with disgruntled stockholders. Last week it was disclosed that they had voluntarily abandoned their bonus scheme...