Word: bolling
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...cauldron boll and bake...
...your Feb. 26 issue it is stated: In the nation's cotton exchanges last week it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll" Boll weevils have a long, hard bill, and they do not nibble a cotton boll. They puncture...
...desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...
They stretched their money to the limit ("for six months we didn't drink a beer"), battled leaf worms, boll weevils, and occasional Nicaraguans who found unopened cotton bolls good to eat. While native growers (most of whom work their plantations with cheap hired labor) were paying out costly bounties for boll weevils caught by hand and stuffed into bottles, Frank and Dick were spraying insecticides under a hot tropical...
...nation's cotton exchanges last week, it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll. In Manhattan, New Orleans and Chicago, cotton traders stayed home; in Memphis, the cotton exchange's big quotation board was bare, and brokers sat around their Front Street offices playing gin rummy and dominoes. Cotton mills held their goods off the market, refusing to bid even on military contracts until they got at least a faint inkling of the score. In four weeks, the marketing system of the U.S. cotton industry had been slowly paralyzed by the price freeze...