Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Bevin, who has spent 31 years in politics, is even more cautious than Jimmy Byrnes. With a wary look in his eye, Bevin arrived in Moscow swaddled in a heavy woolen suit, a thick olive-drab sweater, an enormous fur-lined and collared black coat and fleece-lined boots. He had to turn side wise to ease himself out of the plane's door...
They had plenty of reasons for their opinions. Some of them: 1) production of worsted cloth and the tailoring of garments is crippled by a lack of labor (New England woolen mills need at least 15,000 more workers); 2) worsteds, unfrozen in August, will not reach the civilian consumer until early spring 1946; 3) textile mill machinery is wearing out, needs replacing...
...country's gracious charm, the obvious opportunities for enterprising young men and the war's remoteness, the Tillett boys decided to stay. Soon they found a Russian backer, one Boris Litwin, who agreed to set them up in the family trade, the printing of designs on woolen fabrics...
...Nazi general presenting a half-frozen infantryman with a choice between the Iron Cross and a suit of woolen underwear...
...nighties could be had, by rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...