Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dimitrios played a double game. He maintained a secret organosis of villagers who acted as informers for the Communist guerrillas and laid mines to blow up government transport. For three years, day & night, peasant women had sneaked through fields, hiding mines beneath their wide woolen petticoats, and dreamy-eyed shepherds had leaned on their crooks, watching for government convoys...
Caught between an irresistible force and an immovable object, the American Woolen Co. has long had a squeezed feeling. Irresistible force: the demand of consumers, retailers and clothing manufacturers for lower prices. Immovable object: the sky-high postwar price of Australian fleece, up some 120% since 1939 (TIME...
...last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics for women's wear. In short, some industries had already gone through their own private recession and were getting back to something like normal. Actually, a good deal of the buying slump had come because manufacturers were using...
...last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded him to take off his jacket and western shirt...
...mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this to go on, but oh boy, things would really be bad if they just laid off without the stagger...