Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rollicking Houston is still barreling along on its "hundred-year boom." It has 700,000 people (almost five times the number it had when Holcombe first took office), a $500 million chemical industry, and oil, cattle, cotton and wheat businesses totaling $750 million. It also has more than 100 resident multimillionaires. By 1980, it might, according to Lloyd's of London, bulge with 3,000,000 people. Construction this year will total a skyscraping $500 million. Downtown property is selling for $2,000 a front inch...
Despite rising costs, woolen fabric makers were talking price cuts; clothing manufacturers, whose goods were not moving well at the present high prices, had cut back orders. Cotton cloth prices were already down; grey (unfinished) goods were back almost to 1946 OPA levels...
Last week Ned Ohrbach stepped out in new company: he opened a store on the "Miracle Mile" of Los Angeles' snazzy Wilshire Boulevard (in Prudential's big new building). To strike a spark, he had stocked the store with cotton dresses at $1, woolen dresses at $3.95, nylons for 97? a pair. Just nine minutes after the store opened, he had to shut the doors again. Some 20,000 shoppers had clogged the aisles and escalators. Less than two hours later Ohrbach's was on the air with fervent pleas of "Please, please don't come...
...best we know of for outdoor use") was hailed by Du Pont. Called "Orlon," it is described as warm as silk, as wrinkle-resistant as wool, and resistant to moths, molds and mildew. Though nylon is less likely to tear, Du Pont said that nylon, rayon, linen and cotton were "complete failures" in an exposure test which hardly affected Orlon...
...source book, it is a success. Its authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...