Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Claudius T. Murchison of the Cotton Textile Institute called the bill "administratively impossible to the point of grotesqueness." Managing Director Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute said the Board members ought to be paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory...
...Except corn and cotton, on which first reports are made as of July 1 and August 1, respectively...
From afar a tomeat ye-owls sympathetically. The boys stuff cotton into their cars and try to concentrate on their notes...
Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
...them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...