Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas' Cotton Bowling Palace provides a barbershop and a beauty parlor open 24 hours a day for bowlers. Owner J. Curtis Sanford is planning a new $3,000,000, 100-lane center with a miniature golf course in the middle...
...been false (see box). And the errors were no small ones: if the new figures were to be trusted, all the hardship of the communes had produced only a 35% gain in grain, not the 102% Peking had boasted of, and there had been a 28% increase in cotton, not 104%. The false claims had to be confessed so that the planners could sharply drop their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false figures on "lack of experience in assessing and calculating output," and gloomily blamed the lowered output...
...where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills, clothing and shoe factories, is one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest cities. More primitive and inaccessible are the other three republics, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia and Turkmenistan...
...civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back peanut, tobacco and cotton subsidies, along with other legislation dear to the South. "Cotton," snapped Iowa Democrat Neal Smith, "was hurt worse than labor in that vote...
claims direct descent from New England's fiery Preacher Cotton Mather...