Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...prices, on Christmas goods, largely because they were selling out of big midyear inventories. "But just wait until we do our next buying," warned a Chicago executive. "We'll really be hijacked then." Already, Decca records had spun up 10?, Mohawk carpets 10% (the seventh raise, because of wool price increases, this year); some appliances, e.g., dishwashers, were going up about...
Parity last week was so high that only seven commodities were priced above it: cotton, rice, flue-cured tobacco, wool, beef cattle, lambs and veal calves...
This country is more poorly prepared than it was in 1941. We have delayed all-out mobilization. The Administration has fiddled with war preparations. The Munitions Board has fallen down in its job of stockpiling-we are short of wool and even of cotton...
...growing family of critically short defense materials, Senator Lyndon Johnson's investigating committee last week added an outsize, howling new infant: wool. The committee found "no wool in stockpile" and "no wool in inventory," because of "abysmal lack of foresight. If general mobilization were undertaken now," said the committee, "we would again be as bad off-or perhaps even worse-than we were during both World Wars." The Munitions Board, which is responsible for stockpiling critical materials, "has clearly and miserably failed." The board had even neglected to take title to 460 million pounds of surplus wool held...
Made from natural gas, salt and air, dynel can be dyed, woven with other fabrics or used alone. Davidson says it is washable, mothproof, almost shrinkproof, and resistant to strong chemicals. At $1.25 a lb., manufacturers may find dynel a cheap substitute for wool, which, for similar use, sells at $2.15 to $3.50 a lb. Since dynel orders already far outstrip the company's annual production of 2,000,000 lbs., work was started last week to double the output. If dynel catches on, Union Carbide hopes to expand to as much as 40 million lbs. a year...