Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...
Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
News of an amazingly tough new cotton came from New Orleans last week. Some cloth and thread were buried in a soil bed alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. This material, after six months to a year in the ground, was almost as good...
Developed by Department of Agriculture chemists, the new "acetylated" cotton looks like the ordinary variety but is chemically treated to increase resistance to rot and mildew. Promised: rotproof cotton awnings, tents, fish nets, food bags...
...carpenter's unlettered son, he was a shoemaker and a farm hand before emigrating (as so many French Canadians have done) to the cotton mills of New England. Then, in 1870, he sought to enter the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Montreal. The fathers let him act as porter and unofficial barber of their college, and called him Brother Andre...