Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleazy Lingerie. Sleazy lingerie was expensive, but easier to buy, chiefly because women were not willing to part with coupons for the sake of a chiffon nightie. (Linen sheets to go with the nighties could be had, by rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...
...Production Board repeated that the future will hold even fewer cotton and wool goods for U.S. civilians. Reason: the Army demands a complete new outfit for the more than 3,500,000 soldiers going to the Pacific...
Perfect Matches. In Washington, Elizabeth Bliss married a Lieut. Divine. In Bozeman, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Charles Wheat and Agnes Cotton. In Coronado, Calif., one Dorothy Dix was wed to a Lieut. Danny Deaver...
...Much. On May 1 U.S. warehouses bulged with 11,000,000 bales of cotton (an increase of 705,000 bales in a year), equal to about two years' supply of cotton. Meanwhile cotton consumption by U.S. mills continued to slide from its peak. (The mills used 769,678 bales during April v. 857,693 bales a year ago.) Yet by the peculiar nonsense called parity, prices for raw cotton climbed to 23? a pound-a new high for the last 15 years...
...story of one year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...