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Show Wool Week Begins Nov. 9 Arthur C. Hyde, secretary 01 agriculture and James C Ston?, chairman of the federal farm board, will give the principal addresses at the inaugural dinner of National Wool week at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Saturday evening, November 7, it is an nounced by Colonel Charles F. H. Johnson, general chairman of Wool week. Leaders of all branches of the wool industry will attend the banquet. Wool wek will open November 9 and continue until November 15 under the plan arranged to feature wool products through the United States. Merchants in every ev-ery city and town in the nation will give prominence to woolen clothing and goods, stressing their quality, reasonable price and the new styles. Excellent success is predicted for the week, principally because of fashion's trend to wool this fall and winter and because of the naturally heavy seasonable demand. de-mand. Indications of the "return to wool" from substitutes and poorer quality fabrics is shown in the increase of wool consumption in the nation this year. Consumption Con-sumption in the United States during the first eight months of 1931 was 51.771,391 pounds greater great-er than during the same period a year ago, exclusive of carpet wools. Every woolen and worsted type of materials ranging from blankets blank-ets to the lighest and newest creations cre-ations of undergarments for women will be featured in displays dis-plays by merchants during Wool week. Many cities will usher iu the week with meetings and addresses ad-dresses by authorities in the wool Industry. |