Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because nylon is stronger than cotton or linen and does not rot, Brownell & Co., Inc. of Moodus, Conn, started making nylon fish nets. To test their new product, Brownell made composite gill nets three miles long with alternate sections of nylon, cotton and linen. When the nets were tried in the Great Lakes, the nylon sections caught twelve times as many fish as the others...
...country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look at our apple...
Flair's sample issue has an off-white hard cover, with a second, illustrated cover visible through a triangular peephole. Flair abounds with other tricks. There is an accordion-style pull-out on interior decoration, a pocket-sized book insert, a swatch of cotton fabric, even a page written in invisible ink that can be read when it is heated by a lighted match...
...change in the new cloth is the abandonment of cotton, which Everett Nutter's older brother William first wove with mohair in 1906 to produce the original Palm Beach cloth. The new cloth will have just about as much mohair, but the "scratch" will be taken out by wrapping it in rayon and nylon. The mohair core, said Ward, makes the cloth almost wrinkleproof, the rayon makes it cool. With it he hopes to keep ahead of his rayon and worsted competitors with a suit that combines some of the features of both...
...wall. Dated 1925, it was an urgent request from Novelist Edna Ferber for the Goldenrod's schedule. Suspecting that she was a spy for a rival boat, Menke snubbed the message, leaving her to gather most of her local color for Show Boat on a competing vessel, the Cotton Blossom...