Word: yds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real war commodity-needed for soldiers' uniforms, overcoats, blankets. The U. S. has no wool surplus and the British Empire has forbidden wool exports outside of the Empire. Besides raw wool, millions of yards of woolens normally imported from Britain (1938 imports: 4,800,000 sq. yds.) will have to be made...
...million members. The evacuation force was just one of the services to be whipped together (it now carries on the job of clothing, feeding, schooling the evacuees for the duration of the war). She had 46,000 women trained for ambulance driving (requirements: change wheels, spark plugs, back 100 yds. in total darkness); she put other thousands to work making bandages, nightshirts, stuffing mattresses; more took over the recruiting, classification and transporting of blood and blood donors; under Lady Denman, and Mrs. Walter Elliot-the latter a Scottish sheep farmer and wife of a onetime Minister of Agriculture...
...exclusive patent on the process, not only uses it itself but collects royalties ranging from ¼ ?to 1? a yard from 63 U. S. cotton mills producing 60% of U. S. cotton goods. Last week Cluett, Peabody announced that cotton goods Sanforized in 1937 totaled 425,000,000 yds., against 352,000,000 in 1936, 238,000,000 in 1937. Royalties amounted to $412,000, over half of Cluett's $728,000 net for 1937. Cluett is the second largest U. S. shirt maker in a field of 800, but if Sanforizing continues to spread it may become...
...beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance: 120 yds., Tommy Roberts to jump high hurdles. Towns to jump low hurdles. Because a horse has a long stride, they were to use only five hurdles...
...night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co. some time ago. No one formally notified the airport of the obstruction, but the gang of nine men on the job worked under bright headlights from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter...