Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provincial Premier Thomas Douglas believes that CCF needs four years to round out its program. At the halfway mark its program looked more than halfway impressive. Saskatchewan's publicly owned industrial empire already comprises eleven Crown corporations: printing and brick plants, a woolen mill, box factory...
...first state appearance after liberation, the once regally gowned Wilhelmina turned up in an old coat and a pair of green woolen gloves. The once socially aloof Wilhelmina invited a Miss Marianne Tellegen to be head of her personal cabinet. Miss Tellegen had no social standing whatever; she had merely been a heroine of the Dutch resistance, living for four years next door to Gestapo headquarters in Utrecht...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Young Mao's smart black Russian boots and well-cut woolen tunic contrasted sharply with the padded garb of Yenan's comrades. He had spent half of his 24 years in Russia, where he had gone in 1935 during the Communist Long March from Central China to the Northwest. His elder brother is still in the Soviet capital...