Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cotton Ed Smith, galumphing off to the Senate chamber, liked to say that he was "going over to the Cave of the Winds." During his 35 years in the Senate, he himself could summon up as hot a sirocco as any that scorched the Ship of State. A fit of temper would get him on his feet, and if he could not get the Speaker's attention, he would hack petulantly away on the arm of his chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls...
Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Donald Howard Powers, the 43-year-old Princeton graduate who achieved these homely miracles, shrugged them off as only a beginning. He has already developed other chemicals which double the wear of wool and cotton, make textiles mildew-proof...
China was sick with inflation. Somehow a nation whose masses had always lived close to bare subsistence could endure the shortage of goods, the 360% rise in the cost of living. It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice. But the enduring masses could not correct the evils that trailed inflation-profiteering, black markets, "squeeze," public cynicism, official corruption...
With beer as the original source of its fortune, the House of Bemberg acquired a near-monopoly of brewing in Argentina, then branched into public utilities, cotton, dairy products, wool and yerba mate (Paraguay tea). Sum total of the family fortune was anyone's guess, for the Bembergs kept their mouths shut. Hostile estimates ran as high as a billion dollars...
...Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern political machine, and a skillful playing of the ancient Chinese game of family politics. Himself the direct descendant of Confucius (75th generation), Dr. Kung married the eldest of the three famed Soong sisters. At once he thus became the brother-in-law of China...