Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see the deluge approaching. When he announced his determination to set a ceiling price for cotton by Jan. 15, 22 Democratic Senators from the cotton states threatened to wash OPA off the beach and into oblivion...
...master of ceremonies was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In the row of admirals' heads in the paneled Navy Department board room, his cotton top stood out like a white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters now taking over from 67-year-old Admiral King's war-weary team. As things go in the Navy, the accent was decidedly on youth: the new high command averaged five and a half years younger...
...that milled into the Corso Umberto I were many who had foregone New Year's festivities in favor of a new shirt or a pair of cotton drawers. Carabinieri, forming a half hedgehog around the store, issued numbered admission tickets. Vulturous black marketeers swooped on the scene to hawk phony tickets at $8 apiece...
...Herman Wedemeyer, St. M threat, showed well. Bob Fenimore, Okla threat, showed better . . . Okla Aggies 33, St. Mary's 13. ORANGE BOWL-With score 6-6 and sees left to play, Al Hudson, Miami sub, intercptd pass . . . ran 89 yds to win game . . . Miami 13, Holy C 6. COTTON BOWL-Tex won wild offensive game from Mo. Neither side could stop other . . . Tex 40, Mo 27. ... Thanks for reading. See you soon...
...inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...