Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circular, advertising a Dacron-cotton blended shirt that "your son will really be proud of," prominently features a picture of the Harvard parent's son stapled above a personalized message...
...traditional feed-lot method of fattening cattle with expensive corn can be greatly improved. One development in feeding is the use of synthetic urea to nourish the bacteria in the rumen (part of a steer's stomach) so that a steer can be readied for market on cotton burrs, corncobs and even sawdust in its food...
...Rats in a Tub. Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part...
...gross national product 10%. As recently as 1950, Turkey had to import wheat; today she is the No. 4 wheat exporter in the world. In the same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass grows where the Turk's horse treads...
Thrifty Sponger. At the 1953 clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. General Mills demonstrated a new cellulose surgical sponge that can absorb as much as ten ordinary cotton gauze sponges. The sponges, which come in three sizes, take up only 1/20th as much room as regular sponges, can be rinsed out and used again during an operation. Price: 5? to 15? each...