Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph, Valley Hall is a world, and the best of all possible...
...swank Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin...
...textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments...
Hong Kong has been greatly helped by U.S. opposition to low-priced Japanese cotton imports. When the Japanese were forced to diversify and impose voluntary quotas, many big U.S. department-and variety-store buyers took their business to Hong Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled to an estimated 500 in the past four years, boosted the number of workers from 4,000 to 50,000. To compete in the cut throat world textile market, the Hong Kong garmentmakers' chief weapon has been cheap labor; the average daily wage...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...