Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1910 to watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop-dusting...
...gradually expanded into the passenger business, but Delta-a name from the old cotton days-remained a Southern airline until 1948. In that year it landed a route to Chicago, followed this with stretches to the Caribbean, New York City and, five years ago, the West Coast. Wherever he spread, Woolman stressed courtesy. He liked to say that "this airline is my own baby; I started the thing. But I have tried to make everybody at Delta think this is their airline...
...watching from a window directly below heard the shots from overhead. Oswald's rifle (traced to him through his writing on the mail-order blank) was found near the sixth-floor window; so were three cartridges that experts proved had been fired by his rifle. Tests proved that cotton fibers snagged on the rifle matched the shirt Oswald was wearing that day. Bullet fragments found in the President's car came from Oswald's rifle. As for the slaying of Tippit, two people saw Oswald shoot the officer, and seven others saw him running in the vicinity...
...subsidiary of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. last month opened the first section of a new city for 70,000 north of Los Angeles. Goodyear is creating a new city for occupancy by 75,000 to 100,000 residents on 13,000 acres of cotton farm it no longer needs near Phoenix. Most of these efforts involve little new technology, but G.E. already has a 60-man staff at work devising new techniques...
...blues created by these men-and by dozens of others, such as Jimmy Cotton, Otis Spann, Big Walter Horton, Johnny Shines and Homesick James Williamson-inevitably touch on everyday matters of Chicago ghetto life. Sometimes the lyric is as topical as a newspaper headline, as in Junior Wells's Vietcong Blues, about his brother in Viet Nam ("You know they say you don't have no reason to fight, baby,/ But Lord, Lord, you think you're right"). But social comment is only a faint note in the sound of Chicago blues. For the most part...