Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Carolina's lame duck Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...
Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property solely in the interests of big business; 2) freezing out small farmers and veterans in the disposal of Government lands...
...Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service...
...less than half an inch long, is an old inhabitant of forests, where it nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food. Recently an entomologist, having failed...
...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...