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Show lJl : J Move real wool, the kind that is aupposod to be found In clothing, la; reposing in storchpuses In this coun-l try than ever in the history of tho country. ' More than one billion, two hundred sixty-five million pounds -of virgin wool are in the world's storehouses, most of it in America. k Meantime, there is very little wool in tho ordinary "all-wool" suit. It Is mostly shoddy. The Willard hotel has been purchased pur-chased by the Dupont Powder people.; What they paid for the hotel mukes the local real estate man gasp. Accord- lng to a current report, the Duponts made ao much money out of the war. that they are literally at a loss to know what to do with it. It comes in and piles up so fast that it is a problem prob-lem to keep it Invested. It was certainly high time the United States senate .took, a vacation. Its members were getting so atale on the job that almost anything may happen. The so-called Sterling anti-free speech bin passed the senate without a roll call and with only half a dozen senators present., Tho bill to sell the American merchant marine passed the senate with less than seven members; present without discussion or roll call j As things was going, any one with a little alertness could get tho senate: io pass a bill to auction the White House and put members of congress on life pensions. I |