Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the 1940 "corrective" recession was gaining momentum. In Textiles, surpluses pushed prices down most sharply. Cotton mills, mostly on three shifts for months, are practically through shipping on 1939 orders, must face the fact that new orders are equal to only 33% to 40% of their capacity. Woolen mills are in the same plight...
Into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art strolled a shy young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...