Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Southern Democrats rose up in the Senate to reply, in an extraordinary spate of oratory-Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, South Carolina's Cotton Ed Smith (see p. 14). They tore Joe Guffey to shreds, came close to out-&-out denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt. Senators Bailey and Smith talked threateningly about a new Southern Democratic Party...
...hawk face is not a cruel face. Rather, it expresses a tension bred of Chennault's whole mature life. A Louisiana cotton planter's son, he worked his way through college, taught in a country school. In World War I he enlisted as a private, got a commission at an officers' training camp, transferred from the infantry into aviation. Discharged in April 1920 (he did not go overseas), Chennault returned to his cotton plantation in the Louisiana delta. Several months later he was back in the Army, a first lieutenant in the Air Corps...
Football in 1943 was not quite dead yet. Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange Bowls and the East-West Shrine game still remain to be played, a dozen or more All-America teams to be picked. The first important one was published this week by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, after polling 86 sportswriters. Its features: five Marines, five Notre Dame players, only one civilian (Notre Dame's Creighton Miller, who was discharged from the Army for high blood pressure). The lineup...
...Tricks. Back in 1821 the first fire fighter in the family, James Boyd, invented the first rubber-lined cotton hose to replace the riveted leather hose then in use. He proudly received a patent signed by President James Monroe himself. Ever since, the Boyds have been inventing and manufacturing equipment to fight fires. To learn the tricks, unbookish Mr. Boyd left the University of Pennsylvania (he was having too much fun to bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think...
Outstanding, however, and ranking with that of the U.S., is the Soviet work in botany and agriculture. Among many new crops are green, red and black cotton. The Russians have found a method of planting winter wheat (in unplowed stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...