Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More impressive if not more efficient than any of his confrères was a 200-lb., 6-ft. 3-in. Czechoslovakian named Roderick Menzel, who plays in long shorts and woolen socks that come up almost to his knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play tennis seriously eight years ago. Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays...
...smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon the buyers would stream out of the city with notes and gossip on the fashions Paris was about to set the world for the winter...
Last year a plump-faced Briton flew from London to India. He was Maurice Wilson, 37, son of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer, Wartime infantry captain, holder of the Military Cross. He wanted to land his plane on East Rongbuk glacier (see map try to reach Everest's top from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers...
...from last July through last March. Steel production is running at least 10% ahead of consumption largely because of strike fears. Inventories of tires have reached the highest point since 1930. In such basic commodities as coal and sugar the maladjustment is growing worse. Two conspicuous exceptions are the woolen industry, which is now in one of the most favorable statistical positions in history, and petroleum, on whose outlook Economics Statistics differs with President Roosevelt, finding stocks of crude oil and gasoline by no means out of line with current consumption. But for industry as a whole the service declared...
...Wear red woolen underwear to cure rheumatism...