Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox, influenza and tuberculosis...
Textiles. For its growing family of soldiers, the U. S. Army began buying fabrics for uniforms. Lame old American Woolen Co. and other smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy...
...Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated the broad...
They supplied military needs which no other source in China could produce so efficiently-gloves, caps, greatcoats, padded clothes, gauze, tents, field cots. They saved many a soldier on the northern front from freezing last winter by producing 100,000 woolen blankets. Operating near sources of raw materials and usually for local consumption, they eliminated transportation costs. Above all they provided millions of refugees who trekked west on the heels of freedom with the hope of lasting relief in the form of jobs. At initial cost of only $7, the cooperatives can give a man work which permanently supports...
...ecclesiastical powers. Then a great throng of priests, bishops and Catholic laymen filled St. Patrick's Cathedral. Burly Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia-substituting for Archbishop Spellman's onetime superior, ailing William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston-placed around the Archbishop's shoulders a narrow woolen band embroidered with crosses. It was a pallium, symbol of the powers an Archbishop shares with the Pope...