Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worth Street, on Manhattan's lower West side, is the center of the U.S. cotton goods business. In a short reach of half a dozen run-down blocks lie many of the country's biggest and oldest cotton textile houses and the starchy Merchants and Arkwright clubs for Worth Street. Worth Street firms sold more than $2 billion worth of cotton cloth and yarns in 1947-90% of the output of all U.S. mills...
Last week Worth Street was full of trouble. It started with a buyers' strike last spring. This month the Government predicted a whopping 15,169,000-bale cotton crop. On the New York Cotton Exchange, cotton futures promptly slid off $4.50 a bale. Print cloth went to 25? a yard, off 13? from its year-end high, and there were few buyers. Some thought the slump on the Cotton Exchange would bring down textile prices further. Over & over, customers told Worth Street factors: "We're waiting for lower prices...
Antique Grandeur. Judge Waring was one of Charleston's own. He was born of an old and honored family; he married a Charleston girl. He was appointed to the bench January 1942 on the recommendation of the late Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith. Until he was 65, he abided by the insular mores of Charleston's first families and devoted himself to the dusty grandeur of Charleston's traditions...
Other outsiders, including Russia's poison-penned Ilya Ehrenburg, had toured the land of cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
...This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell." It is Cotton Mather, the fanatic 17th Century preacher, talking...