Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many an industrial smelling problem, from perfumes to inks. Once a manufacturer of metal heating utensils showed Crocker a sample, asked why it smelled bad. Crocker sniffed, then astonished the manufacturer by describing accurately all six stages in the finishing of the article (washing with kerosene, buffing with a cotton polisher...
Nisbet's machine is designed not only to blow the bugs down but to bag them for good. A big fan hooked to the front of a tractor blows through a pair of pipes (one toward the cotton row on each side). The bugs blasted off the plants are caught in funnels and sacks also carried by the tractor. With this simple device Nisbet removes from a single acre of cotton hundreds of pounds of boll weevils, bollworms, hoppers, leaf worms and other insects. The machine works as well on potato plants as on cotton. Nisbet builds his blowers...
News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
...From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...