Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably more, will be spent in Canada for Canadian products. Orders already placed by UNRRA total $11,259,250-for such items as 25,000,000 lbs. of lard, 20,000 tons of farm machinery, 20,000,000 Ibs. of canned fish, $6,000,000 worth of woolen garments. Under negotiation are orders for wheat, meat, trucks, soap...
...autumn drew near the Alaskan sun rose and set in ever-narrowing circles (it was never overhead). Bud and Connie encased themselves in long woolen under wear, never took it off, never washed...
...trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes bunched at the waist under coveralls. Their bodies, baggy with sweaters and heavy woolen pants, moved sluggishly...
...impregnate wool so that it achieves a durable crease when pressed under heat. To make wool shrink-proof, Powers first wets it to open the fibers, then injects a resin inside the hollowed fibers. This stiffens the tiny, fuzzy barbs that stick out of the side of a woolen fiber and prevents the barbs from interlocking - the cause of shrinkage...
Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...