Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents at a small Mayfair cocktail party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit with demure earrings and lapel brooch, made a point of chatting with each guest. Correspondents got the impression that the Windsors wanted a quiet and friendly press because the Duke was job-hunting and wanted no reminders of old scandals. Next day, they got such a splurge of print...
...Russian schoolkids trooped back to classes last week, there was exciting news for all the girls: for the first time, they would wear uniforms. Teachers announced that the state had the cloth ready; parents were expected to buy it, and make the uniforms themselves: brown woolen dresses with simple white collars, and black aprons...
...Verdict. Halfway through last week's doubles championships at Brookline, Pauline ran into trouble. Her big toe became infected, swelled up to twice its normal size. In the semifinals, teamed with Doris Hart, Pauline discarded sneakers, played in heavy woolen socks. They lost. (Osborne and Brough won their fifth doubles championship beating Mary Arnold Prentiss and Pat Todd...
...American Woolen Co.'s net sales dropped over 15%, but its earnings soared a whopping...
...combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market of any one of the fabrics...