Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture Department startled the cotton trade last week, predicted a 1942 cotton crop of 14,028,000 bales, almost 1,000,000 bales above earlier estimates and the largest crop since 1937. Main reasons for the expected bumper harvest: wonderful growing weather and increased use of fertilizer. This combination boosted per-acre yield to 289.3 lb., a record high, 35% above the 1931-40 average...
...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...Texas growers of long staple cotton have called for 35,000 additional pickers within 30 days...
...Half of Arizona's cantaloupes have spoiled in the fields. Ten thousand acres of costly alfalfa went to seed uncut. The State's output of long staple cotton, threefourths of the U.S. supply and used for parachute web and machine-gun belts, is threatened. Casa Grande valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching...
...Paris, Barbara found Georges. Georges, a fascinating footpad, was so closely watched by the police that when he became Barbara's nursemaid she was "the best-guarded child in Paris." Away from Barbara, Georges made his living peddling heroin, stealing old masters, putting cotton in public telephones to prevent coins from being returned. Disguised as a Hindu, Georges once robbed a Swiss bank and a French newspaper, ran the story as reported by its "special envoy" at Basle...