Word: bolle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boll-Weevil Beginning. Dolson inherits a company built on small beginnings. Woolman got hipped on airplanes as a student at the University of Illinois. He learned to fly in a wood and cloth-covered Jenny, worked his way across the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1910 to watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop...
Three Harvard students, Todd Boll '68, David Chesire, and William C. Mullen '67, will rend from their own poetry, and David Ansen '67 will read an original short story tonight at 7 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. This is part of "Harvard College Originals," a preliminary event in the Leverett House Festival of the Arts...
Delighted at having drawn blood, Group 47's leader, Author and Film-Maker Hans Werner Richter, chortled that the "Chancellor's lack of self-control is shocking." "Embarrassing, embarrassing," clucked Writer Heinrich Boll. Der Dicke was unrepentant, but political aides with an eye out for his electoral image prevailed on the Chancellor to issue a clarification. A spokesman declared that Erhard's statements did not mean that he "disassociates himself from novelists and writers or the world of intellect as such," but were only a criticism of "polemic campaign contributions and direct attacks...
Miller's series, called Calhoun, was to be the story of a county agricultural agent engaged in a week-by-week struggle against boll weevils, nematodes, no-see-'ems, and other incorrigibles of the plains. Calhoun may have been a dog, but Miller's book is a vivid and often hilarious account of how TV's butchers can change any script into hamburger...
...system last week proved to be the last boll for the 93-year-old New Orleans Cotton Exchange, which closed its doors to trading. Because the price of cotton has been so firmly fixed, big dealers no longer have to go to the exchange to buy futures contracts to hedge against possible fluctuations. Futures trading on the New Orleans exchange dropped from 12 million bales a decade ago to only 18,000 last year. The exchange did not take its closing easily, planted full-page ads in many newspapers to attack the situation. After suggesting that Secretary of Agriculture Orville...