Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage that threatened to be serious was cotton textiles, in spite of a surplus of raw cotton (see below). Shopwindows might display eye-catching assortments of merchandise until window-shoppers got snub-nosed: the price tags, for most people, said "touch me not." Consumers in the low-income brackets found only inadequate stocks of shabby merchandise at prices they could afford. OPA ceiling prices on cheap goods were set so low that manufacturers could not earn a profit. Thus manufacturers simply stopped making low-priced textiles, or fell back on skimping quality. Underwear production for civilians dropped...
When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Last week the movement passed a milestone. Near Clarksdale, Miss., where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine...
...Planting Co. International Harvester Co. mechanical pickers, including an experimental model that picked two rows at a time, trundled up & down the white lanes, plucking the bolls clean. Mounted on tractors with big wheels that straddle the rows, these machines have rotating drums with small spindles that pull the cotton tufts from the plant...
...Cleaning cotton seed before machine planting. After ginning, the seed has a fuzzy nap that makes seeds stick together; planting these clusters by machine makes "chopping" (thinning), necessary when the plants come up. The Hopson farm eliminated chopping by de-fuzzing the seeds so they could be planted singly...
...flamethrower to kill weeds. Running along the ground between rows, this torch-like apparatus, while burning off weeds, left the thicker cotton stems unharmed...