Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mantua, cross-legged tailors were busy last week cutting scores of classic Roman togas from wide bolts of the traditional white woolen cloth. To make a toga for a wearer 5 ft. 8 in. tall, they snipped out a flattened semicircle, 17 ft. from tip to tip, and 5 ft. broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
...interesting contribution to contemporary American is the fact that opera stars can, and according to the Saturday Evening Post do, wear waists made out of the red woolen plaid lining of their Father's twenty year old overcoats. At least such is the accomplishment of Miss Marion Talley, the homespun diva, who is now pouring forth extensive memoirs...
Busybodies tried to make Partner Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. say last week that his concern intended to buy up the American Woolen Co., dominant producer of its field. Vexed, he replied tartly: "We are not interested in any shape or form in the American Woolen Co. We don't like making formal denials of reports like these, because such denials are sometimes misunderstood as being ungracious, but that is the simple fact...
...reports have grown since William Wood, organizer of the American Woolen Co., committed suicide last year (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Since 1924, the company has been losing money. The loss then was $6,944,420. Last year, according to the annual report issued last week, the loss...
Demand was poor because people with little money to spend curtailed purchases and those with much money bought silk and rayon. This year the advertising of cotton clothes will seriously affect woolen goods...