Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cotton-State Senators chortled. Headed by old (79) "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, they had fought a bitter minor battle. The War Department had plumped for the use of rayon cord in synthetic tires in place of cotton. The politicos, ever-sensitive in their cotton fibers, worried about the South's loss of a good chunk of its domestic cotton market. Then, last week, the Senate's Truman Committee mightily boosted the cause of cotton cord...
...bulled through most of his program to expand U.S. rayon cord capacity 100,000,000 lb. annually (to a total of 200,000,000 lb.). He was all set to use rayon cord in all medium and heavy synthetic tires for the Army. To the outraged protests of cotton Senators (who called Jeffers before the Senate's Agricultural Committee) Jeffers gave a flat answer: the Army wanted rayon; the Army was going to get it. Army tests, he said, had proved rayon had higher tensile strength than cotton, greater resistance to heat...
Slipshod tests had been conducted, the Committee reported, under the auspices of military men drafted from the Big Four rubber companies. But even these tests had proved "cotton cord the equal of rayon in most sizes of synthetic rubber tires in the latest tests. Rayon has displayed no superiority over cotton to warrant the great investment in critical materials now being made to produce facilities for rayon cord...
...myself. I need the band there to back me up." For no less than twelve years she had one of the best Negro bands back of her: Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy. She was Kirk's pianist from New York's Famous Door and Cotton Club to Chicago's Grand Terrace, Kansas City's Lone Star and Los Angeles' Paramount theater. And while the band backed up Mary Lou, she backed up the band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many of them (Roll 'em, Froggy Bottom, etc.) are classics among...
...Government had asked for 30 million acres of cotton this year. Bad weather and manpower troubles cut cotton plantings to less than 22 million acres. This picture was gloomy, but not final. There is nearly enough in reserve (eleven million bales) to meet a year's needs, but much of it is low-grade, or unsuitable short-staple. If-and this is a big if-the 1943 yield per acre is as good as last year's (a high of 272 lb. per acre), it will be enough to meet the record U.S. needs for a year...