Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow buses bumped along the back roads of North Carolina. At Laurinburg (pop. 5,685) they pulled up in front of an old Air Force camp theater, and 60 musicians tumbled out with their instruments. An audience of kids, who had trekked in from all over corn-and cotton-raising Scotland County, was there already, waiting for one of the 117 concerts that Conductor Benjamin Swalin's peripatetic North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (and its 23-man task force) will play at more than 60 highway & byway spots in the state this spring...
...balmy day last week, a Manhattan housewife shopped for her summer clothes. In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag. But before she could get away, the saleswoman stopped her; the dress had just been marked down. The new price was $15; the customer took...
...isolated case. Summer clothes in stores all over the U.S. were going at bargain rates. In Atlanta, Rich's offered $4 cotton dresses (40% below last year). In Nashville, Harvey's department store slashed all its prices by 35% to 40%. Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, put on sale $1 million worth of summer merchandise at cut prices. In Chicago, Mandel Brothers sold $18 summer dresses for $7. Montgomery Ward & Co. also swung a sharp ax. It cut prices from 10% to 40%; washing machines were off 10% to 15%; porch furniture...
...Negro lay on a bare bedspring in the junk-crammed yard, taking the sun. One of his legs was off at the knee. Inside, his son and daughter-in-law lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick of the oil lamp that furnished the only light...
...Cheers?" The speakers produced their well-worn libels with the pride of a paterfamilias displaying yellowed family photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss, set the keynote...