Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well as his uniform, was still nearly "as immaculate...
...conference is under the direction of Dana M. Cotton, Director of Admissions and Placement in the Graduate School of Education, and associate director of the Summer School...
There were young men in cotton cord suits, belt-buckled and buttoned and pale blue starched; there were sweat-shirt and tennis-shoe esthetes and the wearily omniscient...
...RICHARD C. COTTON c/o Postmaster San Francisco
Libby, McNeill & Libby was having trouble selling baked beans until it changed the label to a rich, dark color, emblematic of the molasses-smothered beans inside, has since redesigned nearly all its 250 labels. One manufacturer put out cotton-tipped swabs in three colors: white, pink and chartreuse. White and pink were fine; chartreuse flopped because it reminded women of baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner...