Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wooden plows, make an average of 4? a day and have a life expectancy of 27 years (U.S. life expectancy: 61 years). Seventy percent of all India lives on the soil. Ten percent is crowded in the world's worst slums in the great industrial cities (steel, jute, cotton) of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. In this vast land of riches, riots, peacocks and poverty the British have invested at least $4,300,000,000 on which they draw an estimated 4.9% annually and pay the world's smallest taxes...
...Help Cairo. All through the summer, 140 miles behind the lines, Cairo had sweltered and fidgeted, stirring uneasily under an occasional sprinkle of Axis aerial bombs. In & out of gaudy, mosquelike Shepheard's Hotel had streamed the city's potpourri: cotton kings, gamblers, Imperial soldiers, newsmen and Cecil Beaton, wincing at the din of "hurdy-gurdies, bicycle bells, news vendors, trams, bagpipes, loudspeakers and the braying of donkeys...
...Pont supplies some of its workers with a clean pair of cotton gloves every two hours...
...aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York fellers," said Old Man Towne. "Whut do they know about whut cotton's wuth? They ain't never growed none...
...raincoats, golf balls, baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose its flexibility at 70° below...