Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become epidemic until the 19th Century. The tiny virus that causes it (one of the smallest known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient...
...Cotton broad-woven fabrics were turned out at an average weekly rate of 182.5 million yards, chalking up a new record...
Shortcut. Loy Harrison, his 275 pounds sweating uncomfortably behind the wheel of an old Pontiac, started on the road toward home while Roger Malcolm chattered happily. Six miles out from Monroe, Harrison turned off on a rough, sun-drenched, red-clay shortcut between the cotton fields...
...Aragon-Baldwin Mills, Duncan Mills, M. T. Stevens & Sons Co., Slater-Carter-Stevens, Inc., Victor-Monagha'n Co., Watts Mills, Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Republic Cotton Mills, Wallace Manufacturing...
...proposed combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market of any one of the fabrics...