Word: wools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the summer of 1938, earnest, acidulous President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers took a look at his industry. He saw that its 560 firms had a net loss of more than $10,000,000 in the preceding six months and he grew sarcastic. Soon the trade received from President Besse a three-page printed blast against price cutting and reckless competition...
...square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton; 100,000,000 sq. ft. of hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair; 256,000 cattle hides; 590,000 tons of sugar cane; 1,115,000 bushels of corn; 4,828,200 lbs. of turpentine; 18,590 lbs. of beeswax; 36,000 hogs. The oil industry, most extraordinary and dramatic of them all, with the pumps slowly chugging...
This week U. S. assembly lines were clogging in several bottlenecks. > Textiles, paper, paint, steel, drugs and other industries dependent on imports faced a possible contraction, no immediate expansion of supplies. Raw wool, silk, pulp, shellac, vegetable oils, tin, chrome, tungsten, manganese, quinine, menthol, camphor, narcotics, are among materials which reach the U. S. by trade routes jeopardized...
...firm in Uruguay looked in the U. S. for wool-processing machinery formerly bought from France...
...German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace...