Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-six New York City cloth merchants rubbed their hands joyfully last month when the city ordered $67,092 worth of woolen goods to be made into winter coats for needy women & children by WPA workers. Last week city inspectors rejected half the cloth submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted...
...ocean-spanning plane had been forced down, that contingency was provided for, too. Aboard were two inflatable rubber rafts, with stocks of water, "nose cups" to condense breath into emergency water supply, concentrated rations, a can opener. To inflate the rafts there were cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter...
...over the management of certain textile mills belonging to the Ayer interests which had operated on part time for three years at a loss; he put all mills at full capacity, cut prices to the bone, soon made so much money that the company expanded into the vast American Woolen...
Matt Mann, son of an English saloon keeper, learned to swim in the dirty streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
...position but they nevertheless gave him unanimous permission. Within a few months he found himself in command. Last year he moved to the chairmanship, the presidency going to Publisher William B. Warner of McCall Corp., a high-voltage supersalesman who once attempted the task of dry-cleaning American Woolen...