Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wool growers' anxiety was understandable. The wool was imported, mainly from Australia and South Africa, to protect the textile industry against uncertain supplies. Woolen cloth production had spurted; the demand for wool jumped from 650 million lb. in 1941 to over 1 billion lb. in 1943. Since U.S. wool production is only 450 million lb. a year, heavy imports and a comfortable stockpile were necessary. But despite record consumption the stockpile of wool still remains large enough to supply the entire U.S. textile industry for a full year at its anticipated 1944 rate of production...
...Coop, sales of earmuffs, woolen stockings, and gloves have tripled, while underwear remained steady. Earmuffs, scarce because they contain steel, threatened to sell out soon if the frost continues to bite students' ears...
Norway's looting in some respects has been the most scientific and painstaking of all. In addition to ail the other standard tricks, the Germans here have gone so far as to requisition personal property of individuals right down to woolen blankets, ski trousers and windbreaker jackets...
...them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when he knows women are out there. The only solution is for these officers to ask their wives, in a spirit of cooperation, to wait elsewhere or wear black woolen stockings...
Jack Oakie and Cezar Romero try desperately to be funny but don't get far. Their nearest approach was a series of scenes in which Romero, clad sedately in a set of long woolen drawers, gallops madly through the hotel. Not especially subtle, but the audience appeared to be amused...