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...voters a second time. As always, modest, attractive Mrs. Attlee was, in the words of a friend, "quietly piloting Clem, although Clem still sits in the front seat." A suitcase was packed, gas coupons checked, road maps ready and Clem's knees were snugly wrapped in a woolen blanket as Violet swung the Hillman's nose out of Downing Street toward Watford, 17½ miles to the north...
They had persuaded such British artists as Sir Francis Rose, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer to contribute designs, and they hoped the high, wide & woolen results would be shown and sold in France and the U.S. as well as England...
...share of voting common stock and shares of nonvoting stock in proportion to the number of years worked in the community. Members bought their homes from the society and installed private kitchens. They went to work for wages in one of the society's 50 businesses, e.g., the woolen mill, furniture factory, open-hearth bakery, or the new refrigerator plant founded by profit-minded young Amanist George C. Foerstner...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...
...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...