Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...count of the new House of Representatives was completed last week, seven-termer Bertrand Gearhart was at the bottom of the wreckage of 75 Republican seats. He was soundly beaten by a man who had never before run for public office: tall, 47-year-old Cecil White, a cotton rancher who campaigned by radio and in his small airplane...
...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...
...rows of shops. The bandaged heads of soldiers stood out in sharp relief among the crowds. Every few hundred yards our car passed soldiers hobbling on crutches or canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...
...other hand, commodity futures markets, which had been sagging for weeks, went up. Cotton jumped $3.85 a bale, wheat as much as 4¼? a bushel, and butter, eggs, etc. all made sizable gains in the expectation that the Democratic victory meant a continuation, perhaps for years, of high support levels for crops...
...bagful which he kept under his coat and devoured. His aides were quick to spot the chief's moods and behave accordingly. Sometimes it would be: "God help anybody who asks him for any favors today." Again: "He feels so good he'll be telling Cotton Ed Smith that it's perfectly all right for the South to go ahead and secede...