Word: mohair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 in the exhausted fields...
Thus relentlessly concluded last week was the fall clip of Texas mohair. Twice a year, in October and February, the 3,000,000 Texas goats which supply four-fifths of the nation's crop of mohair are rounded up to be clipped. Every year they grow some 12,500,000 Ib. of hair which sells for around 60? a Ib. to people who turn it into upholstery...
...vegetation of west central Texas agrees with the Angora goats who grow the best quality mohair and every bush and tree is nibbled clean as high as goat can reach. A huge fortune from Texas mohair was made by Charles Schreiner, a French immigrant who started as a merchant, turned to banking, prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders...
Chatting cheerfully, they looked down on busy traffic and Harvard Square's varied humanity from their mohair perches. Especially amusing to them as they rolled peacefully along was a blond Harvard lad, tennis racquet under his arm and, mercy, clad in shorts...
...dolls are made annually. An infant industry (before the War practically all were imported), U. S. dolls are protected by a tariff ranging up to 70%. The business is highly specialized. One of the largest units, Margon Corp., makes only eyes, teeth-&-tongues, voices. Most dolls' hair is mohair or artificial silk, but eye lashes are real hair, imported from nuns in certain Italian convents at $8 a pound. Though many a doll is sold naked or equipped merely with a diaper and safety pin, complete wardrobes are available. In Cleveland in 1928 a heavy demand was found...