Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I was still a young boy I was bitten by the stage bug", Mr. Stone admitted, "and I started my career in my father's barn on our ranch in Colorado arrayed in a red flannel shirt and red woolen under-drawers...
...enable farmers to detect it. ¶The Ketcham Bill to authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth-in-Fabric Bill, requiring the branding of woolen goods to show the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, silk, or other fibre in the fabric. A bill of this general type has been before Congress for 22 years. ¶The Purnell Bill to supply the Department of Agriculture with funds to further agricultural experimentation...
...sensation of last week in the stock market arose from the passing of the 7% dividend upon American Woolen common. Dividends on the stock at a rate of 5% were inaugurated April 15, 1916; on Oct. 15, 1919, the rate was raised to 7%, which has been paid ever since. The Company's statement attributed the dividend action to "the severe depression in the textile industry"; American Woolen itself is probably experiencing the most trying period since its formation over 25 years ago. The day before the dividend was passed, the stock "acted queer" in the market, declining noticeably...
...Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats...
...bought lighter garb. Last week they were stationed at the small village of Brough on the Humber in England, having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats spell many gallons of gasoline. Everything unessential must be discarded, and even safety razors must disappear. Their fellow citizens will welcome gallant officers who are heavily bewhiskered...