Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the most hardheaded incumbent isolationists were already beaten in primaries: Missouri's mulish Bennett Clark, Idaho's stubborn D. Worth Clark, Oregon's egregious Rufus Holman, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith...
Courtney Fred Rogers, 26, is a tall, bookish, satyr-faced church organist who lost his family, one by one. His old grandmother, 76, died suddenly. His mother, apparently a suicide, was found one morning with chloroform-soaked cotton over her face. Finally, one night three years ago, his father, in a drunken stupor, was burned to death when the Los Angeles house caught fire...
...WPBoss Julius A. Krug warned civilians that cotton textiles and shoes would continue in short supply. Cotton piece-goods production this year will be down to 9.9 billion yards, 12% under...
...unoriginal idea and an overabundance of emotion, it takes a truly professional touch to keep matters from getting trite. Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...work was. Under cover of theoretical researches at the Collège de France, he led in the organization of 18 laboratories for making explosives and incendiary bottles for resistance units. At least twelve Nazi tanks were destroyed by the bottles. Huge quantities of guncotton were made from cotton received a bale at a time. Radio transmitters and receivers were assembled for the underground despite, in some cases, Nazi occupancy of the same buildings. Joliot continued the publication of L'Université Libre, which reached a fortnightly circulation of a thousand...