Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed suit, snatched the silk ties from male delegates. When all the silk in sight had disappeared, they raced into the dormitories, returned with other armloads of students' underthings. Around the fire danced the delegates chanting: Make lisle the style, wear lisle for a while. If you wear cotton, Japan gets nottin...
...Interest in the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas between Rice and the University of Colorado lay in seeing whether Rice could box up Rhodes Scholar-Select Byron ("Whizzer") White. But in the firct ten minutes of play White smartly intercepted a pass for one touchdown, successfully completed a pass for another, and kicked a pair of extra points, before his line petered out. Then the Rice line smothered him while two Rice sophomores, Ernie Lain and Olie Cordill, led their team to four touchdowns. Score: Rice 28, Colorado...
University of Colorado's bespectacled 20-year-old Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, All-America back and 1937's high college football scorer (122 points) who this week plays in the Cotton Bowl game against Rice Institute, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where his brother Samuel is currently a Rhodes Scholar...
Unfortunately, the McKinsey crystal ball had predicted a small cotton crop this year. When it turned out to be immense, the Marshall Field manufacturing division took a whale of a loss on its huge cotton orders. What was worse, Mr. McKinsey, for all his theoretical skill, foresaw no business depression ahead and the manufacturing division kept on turning out goods at top speed all last spring. When excess inventory caught up with the Fieldcrest mills, they were definitely hard hit. The manufacturing division is now contracting like a scared shellfish...
...mile trip from New Orleans to St. Louis, a third of its round-trip expense of $3,200. He put down the population of the towns he passed, the number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened...