Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge received 14 Italian women and from their hands a hand-spun, hand-woven woolen dress made by the Mothers' Club of an industrial school in Boston. Twelve Hungarian ladies from Cleveland presented her with a hand-made lace centrepiece...
...Kozlov discovered were made of wood and consisted in a typical instance of one chamber, measuring about seven by ten yards, placed inside another so as to leave a rather large corridor around the outside. Within the inmost chamber, a heavy, lacquered and decorated coffin lay upon a thick woolen carpet. In the second chamber were found the valuable textiles and other objects. No golden or silver pieces were found in any of the tombs due to the fact that they had already been broken into by robbers at a much earlier date. Human remains were also...
...most marvelous things about the whole discovery," said Professor Pelliot, "is the remarkable way in which the large numbers of very perishable materials such as woolen and silk textiles, and even furs have been preserved. It is particularly extraordinary when we realize that they are in this state of preservation in spite...
Once Senator Smoot tried to start a woolen industry in Provo, Utah. Business genius though he is, he soon gave up. Why? 1) Because it cost him $2.25 a hundred to get wool from San Francisco whereas Bostonians got wool from San Francisco for 75c. 2) Because Bostonians could ship their finished product to Chicago for 50c whereas it cost him $3.40 from Provo...
...Senator Smoot would have founded a woolen industry in Utah. What prevented? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...