Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel production was 20% of normal, machine tools 70%, chemicals 20%, textiles 15%, electricity 30%. There was little salt, and the general public could expect no leather shoes before 1946. Meanwhile they would wear wooden get a (clogs). The country had lost 11 million of its 14 million prewar cotton spindles but could still supply domestic textile needs if it had 5 million piculs (1,300,000 U.S. bales) of cotton. The total on hand: 100,000 piculs. Because of the sugar shortage, chemical companies turned to saccharine production, hoped to produce two grams per capita yearly...
...plum of reclaimed servicemen was probably cotton-topped Stan Kozlowski, a seemingly sure All-America. Kozlowski reported to Holy Cross, cockily asked for and got No. 77, Red Grange's old number...
Married. Samuel Sloan Colt, 53, socialite president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.; and Anne Weld Crawford McLane, 35, daughter of the late Edward Weld, onetime New York Cotton Exchange president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Arlington, Va., four days after a Reno divorce ended his 28-year marriage to Margaret Van Duren Mason Colt...
...parks rarely commemorated historic figures. More frequently they were sacred to deified animals and trees. In the center of the city was a shrine to Inari, the god of harvests, and his servant, the fox. Inari & Fox did a mail-order business (literally) in charms against witchcraft. The cotton plant and the silkworm were annually feted because they gave their lives for humanity...
Amid the tall chimneys of Lancashire a score or more cotton mills had reopened. The radio industry bulged with orders. Shipyards boomed under six-year backlogs. Through the foggy mists of Liverpool rose a forest of cranes, "demobbing" big liners from war to peace...