Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week German civilians went to their cinemas and saw newsreels of winter on the Russian Front. They saw carloads of woolen socks and greatcoats rolling to the front through snow-covered countryside. They saw German sappers building wooden camps frankly labeled Winter Quarters, German tailors fitting fur jackets to tank crews, German kitchen police getting water by chopping holes in ice, German greaseballs sweeping snow off the wings of fighter planes...
...crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes. He screamed. Still nobody came. Once in a while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
Electrically heated flying suits, so perfected that the U.S. Army Air Corps has ordered 12,000 of them from General Electric. In developing the suits, a Flying Fortress crew last winter flew 10,000 feet up over Alaska in -30° weather, dressed only in long woolen underwear through which electrical coils were woven. The new suits are lighter and cheaper than the sheepskin garments now used, and they leave a flier nimbler at his controls and guns. Heat can be adjusted for outside temperatures from 70° to -60°, can be increased to protect injured fliers from shock...
...acquaintance, a machinist in a Moscow factory in his late 305, has three children living in one room with one small window, and earns 600 rubles monthly-the price of one poor-quality man's woolen suit. He is forced to work overtime regularly in order to maintain his wage. In May, he said: 'All the same, it would be little good for us if the Germans defeated the Soviet Union. We must fight all together if attacked.' To generalize, the countryside is potentially unreliable, but the city population will fight well...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...