Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jeopardized by shortages of manpower. Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
...King Cotton tottering on his throne? In the worried South, researchers preparing for the coming postwar battle with rayon and other synthetic upstarts have been hard at work experimenting with likelier strains, new methods of machine cultivation (TIME, Nov. 13). Last week they heard good news : a Georgia State Experiment Station has developed a "super cotton" which may give the king new life. The new strain, called "Empire...
...long fibers of great tensile strength, grows in big bolls that are easy to pick, bears relatively few leaves (thick foliage shades cotton too much...
...Lieut. Kirsch did nothing but find out for himself how battle fear feels. He was "literally 'scared as hell' from the time the aircraft neared the target area until it had passed well out of range of the island's defenses." His mouth was dry ("spitting cotton"), his hands were drenched in icy sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left a deep impression; the idea of having nothing...
...Expect shortages of cotton, woolen and worsted goods until military orders are well filled; only after that indeterminate time can civilians expect full supplies of soft goods...