Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...
...Woolen underclothes," snapped Dr. Gerald Gibbens in the Practitioner (London), "are expensive, difficult to wash, and are water-repellent, so that when we move with any energy at all we sweat and stay wet and itchy and smelly for the rest of the day." His remedy: "dishcloth underclothes," knitted of cotton yarn. Just as warm as wool, he says, easier to wash, softer-and cheaper...
Textiles. American Woolen, despite a 16% rise in sales, was hard-hit by the slump. It did not report its actual losses, merely put them at $895,000 after tax carrybacks, v. a profit in the 1951 quarter of $1.1 million...
...White Suit (Rank; Universal-International) spins a colorful yarn out of whole cloth about a research chemist (Alec Guinness) who invents an artificial fabric that will never stain or wear out. The result is top-grade movie material with the quality of good British woolen, the frothiness of fine French lace...
...stock market, which has felt weak in the knees for some time, took a slight header last week. It was pushed down by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which announced a $500 million issue of convertible bonds, and American Woolen Co., world's biggest woolen firm, which passed its dividend. Since A.T. & T.'s new issue would dilute the present stock, traders rushed to sell. A.T. & T., normally steady, dropped two points. American Woolen dropped three points to 30; for minutes, trading had to be stopped before a bid could be found. The unloading of stocks spread...