Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francis W. White, 56, was named president of the $106 million American Woolen Co., world's largest woolen & worsted manufacturer, to succeed Moses Pendleton, who died last month. Frank White has been in the woolen & worsted business for 26 years, 15 of them with American Woolen as a mill manager and top textile designer. His next big job: designing a new look for American Woolen's profits, which plummeted from $16,472,393 in 1948 to $2,194,451 last year...
...Estonia, woolen and cotton sales rose 100%, trade in general...
Some 40 young men in thin woolen garments have been jogging, throwing, and leaping their way through freezing winds in Soldiers Field for the past few weeks in a last-minute attempt to loosen up cold muscles before the start of the season...
...painter, Smith had been a late and uncertain starter. After making halfhearted attempts at earning his-living in the family wire works and in a Bradford woolen mill, he persuaded his parents to let him study commercial art in Manchester. His real artistic life began in 1903 when he crossed the channel to Brittany...
...With all this modern electric equipment around them, however, observers still freeze throughout the winter. Since the sensitive lenses cannot take quick temperature changes, and have to stay in the open all night for use, the buildings are never heated; students must supply themselves with fur-lined gloves and woolen caps on cold winter nights...