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Show Navy Places a Large Order For Wool Goods i 1 A pi eject irstituted by the Na- tional Wool Marketing Corpora-j Corpora-j tion, the Federal Farm Board and j ether agencies interested in im- proving the domestic wool si'.T.-t..n si'.T.-t..n u:ii aiding the weolgrowei nas commenced to bear fruit. Tho United States Navy department depart-ment authorized, January 23. the I'xponaituie of $750,000, for w .)'.-en .)'.-en g ods. The order, as announced an-nounced by Assistant Socretaiy Jahncke, calls for 200,000 yards of wcclen uniform cloth, 15M0 j ..-ds cf woolen overcoating and 40,00,) biank-.ts. This order, which is on? of several very encouraging ocvii-pnienls in the wool trade cuin: the last few weeks, wiK :a!l for between 2,000,000 and 3,-oj.009 3,-oj.009 pounds of wool. In making the announcement the ravy department said Pros.-de. Pros.-de. Hoover lavored the purcaiso because it was in line with his policy cf fitting public work and g-Aenmient buying into the campaign cam-paign to reduce unemploymeiii. rliis was an argument advanced jy members of the executive cim-iriiitee cim-iriiitee of the National Wool Mar-e.ii:t-; Corporation, members ol the Federal Farm Board, and rep-if'3ntatives rep-if'3ntatives of Draper & Company, .riling agents for the wool co-. co-. pc.rtive, when they proposed to President Hoover in a personal interview in-terview that this would be an deal lime for both the army and navy to replenish its stock of wool-H wool-H gocds. It was pointed out that .: ..vernment purchases at this time . ould not only aia unemployment y; saving mills work but would B'Owers and at the same U1113 .iiild mean the army and navy, d- ;iaitments wouia be obtaining muc'., -needed supplies at exceptionally excep-tionally favorable prices. '1 he National Wool Marketinj Cji po'al.on is in a positon to ob-:ain ob-:ain its iull share of Dtisiness in-vclvco in-vclvco in tins huge navy order, it is expected Oy officials .of thr ricrporatii n that this is the first of several orders of this nature The: army department has be-m acquainted with the advantages that would come from replenishing replenish-ing its stocks of woolen goods at this time. An order from the a: my would be considerably laiger ihan the cne just placed by the navy. |