Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-six New York City cloth merchants rubbed their hands joyfully last month when the city ordered $67,092 worth of woolen goods to be made into winter coats for needy women & children by WPA workers. Last week city inspectors rejected half the cloth submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted...
MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural...
Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
Proper procedure: "Place the handkerchief about one and one-half inches above the tip of the nose, holding the cloth immediately above the nasal bones, at all times keeping the nostrils open, and then blow...
India's impoverished rural children, who will go to school from ages 5 to 14, 288 days a year, will work for their education four hours each school day, making cloth, etc. for sale. Plan is to start each school by getting a patriot to give a piece of land yielding at least $80 a year. The rest of the cost is to be met by village festivals, Government grants. Teachers will live in the schoolhouses, be paid $8 a month, sign up for a minimum of 25 years' service. A problem: enlisting women teachers. India has virtually...