Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only a pampered husband, swathed in editorial cotton wool, could possibly have written the "acid ode" on U.S. wives . . . I'm afraid Editor Fischer wanted a lot of free publicity for himself and his magazine, but hit on a poor means of getting it. Why doesn't he cut himself loose from his wife's apron strings and find out firsthand what American men and women are really like, and then write his piece...
...marketplace in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Union's irrigation-ditched Uzbek Republic, a U.S. newsman spotted a cowboy hat, asked its wearer if he was an American. The far-flung tourist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, reckoned he was. Later, Douglas dashed to a nearby cotton-growing collective farm, where he had a joyful, isn't-it-a-small-world meeting with the dozen U.S. farmers also touring the U.S.S.R...
...Congress pass any law punitive to business. It roundly endorsed the Government's exit from the synthetic-rubber industry, but it dragged its feet on other Administration attempts to take the Government out of competition with private enterprise. To the dismay of many industrialists, e.g., Southern cotton manufacturers, it raised the minimum wage from 75? to $1 ; to the relief of most employers it postponed a boost in Social Security benefits. It extended the 52% corporate tax, but most businessmen were in sympathy with the purpose behind that extension: to cut federal deficit spending...
Stan is a handsome stripling and Amy Victoria Fibbens a skinny teen-ager when they get married at the turn of the century in the rickety church at Yuruga, a town where "a person could be dead an only the flies would cotton on." Stan takes his bride to a shack deep in untracked wilderness, where the awesome stillness has not been violated since the last glacier crunched to a halt. Stan fells the giant trees, pries grudging boulders out of the earth, builds up his own herd of cattle...
...World War II, when harness racing caught the public eye, and horse-players learned to tolerate the nighttime trots, Little Joe and his string built a reputation wherever standard-bred horses drew sulkies. In 1952 Joe gave up his own stables to go to work as trainer for California Cotton and Tobacco Farmer Sol A. Camp, a well-heeled horse lover who owned some of the best trotters and pacers in harness. Ever since, under Little Joe's hand, Camp's horses have been coming home with rewarding regularity...