Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over all the black, rich delta land of Mississippi, which produces 7% of the nation's cotton crop, Southern whites last week were lifting their own loads, toting their own bales. In the hills, white women and small boys sweated behind the mules down the long hot rows of cotton and corn...
...department stores, cotton goods, gloves, cosmetics, costume jewelry, electric cookers and hot plates were on sale...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...
...kill-all. Against two of the most common U.S. crop destroyers, the Mexican bean beetle and the cotton boll weevil, DDT has proved disappointing. Man has not yet won his war with the insects...
...Lynch of New Orleans announced that peanut oil now makes a good substitute for olive oil in salads, mayonnaise and for industrial uses. Peanut proteins already have a big new market in a glue for paper and wood. In Georgia, the peanut crop is already close to cotton in value, may soon pass it, may even compete with soybeans for commercial interest...