Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleeper. In Goldsboro, N.C., John Cotton slept while a thief brought in a floor lamp to make his work easier, stole the spread from the bed, also made off with Cotton's trousers...
However, in the past three months some startling innovations have been made. The Government now produces cotton at fixed prices and furnishes it to machine spinners. It distributes yarn to weavers, who cross it with hand-spun yarn to weave cloth. This is turned over at fixed prices to the Commodity Administration, which in turn sells it at Government stores at prices 25% lower than the market...
...warships swooped into the Bay of Bengal, threatened to cut supply lines to India-source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three months' supply, something had to be done. It was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below military cotton cloth. Month later Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging...
Results are startling. Bemis Bro. Bag Co., No. 1 U.S. bagmaker, last week reported that, while burlap-bag output was down 80%, cotton-and paper-bag production was up 50%. This switch was cheap: a few ingenious adjustments immediately converted burlap-bag machines to cotton; paper-bag facilities were enlarged and slapped on longer schedules. Meantime Lend-Lease and military bag orders piled in. Thus, instead of starving on the jute shortage, Bemis Bro.-and most other U.S. bagmakers-are serving the war effort by the highest production ever...
When in jail, Nehru finds that "spinning on the charka (spinning wheel) and weaving niwar" (cotton webbing) "are delightfully soothing." Yet on the death of his father he does not quote the Vedas, but Edgar Allan Poe: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save by the weakness of his feeble will...