Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each year. Professor John Charles Olsen of Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute has found that in a large percentage of deaths, burning clothes supplied the deadly fumes. This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...Social Service Committee had brought in a report to the Eastern New York division of the Methodist Church urging government ownership of natural resources, railroads, banks, steel, cotton and woolen mills. Said the report: "We must of necessity face frankly the fact that Capitalism is un-Christian and unethical, and then consider ways and means of replacing it." To this end, churchmen, were urged to take up politics...
...psychic, "Margery," Mrs. Crandon, removed all clothing before the seances at Harvard, says a signed state- ment of the Harvard group in Dr. Crandon's report. "She wore into the seance room one warm woolen garment," Electric torches, large megaphones, bells, baskets, all illuminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this...
Enlistments were limited to single men between 18 and 25 whose families had been long on municipal relief rolls. They were all required to make a substantial allotment from their pay to their depend ents. At Army camps they were issued: O. D. (olive drab) woolen trousers, O. D. flannel shirts, work trousers, underclothes, socks, shoes, raincoat, jumpers, work hat, cravat, belt, barracks bag, two O. D. blankets, mess kit. For two weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened...
...milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running at from 65% to 91% of capacity, paper mills 88%, cotton mills 70%, rayon factories 65%, boot & shoe industry 60% and chemical production...