Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This book is like an evening of mellow talk over bourbon and water. Its author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...
...Democrats. "You saps!" he screamed. (For the Congressional Record he edited this to "You poor, misguided creatures.") "I cannot understand you. You did what the New Dealers shied away from doing for 16 long years." He threatened the South with revenge. "We are going to remove all quotas on cotton imports . . . If you pull us down, by the eternal, we will pull you down with...
...likes to point out Monsanto's contributions to his plane: fire-retarding control surfaces, stain-proof upholstery, the plastic-covered table and plastic dishes in the galley. Among Monsanto's more arresting new inventions: Resloom, a chemical that promises to make rayon creaseless, cotton wrinkleless, and keep wool from shrinking...
Born to Poll. The methods which George Gallup uses are as old as those used by grain samplers, cotton testers or tea tasters. Gallup's contribution has been to apply those methods commercially to everything and anything in the world. A friend has said of him: "He wishes he had invented the ruler. Since someone beat him to it, Gallup has spent his life thinking up new ways to use it." It is almost true to say that George Gallup was born to be a pollster...
...John M. Cotton Jr.--Thayer Hall...