Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help Japan correct its present foreign-exchange shortage, increase its cotton purchases, etc. Under study: about $500 million in loans, other forms of assistance...
...Hollis (pop. 3,089), Okla. Lindy got $50,000 to sign in 1955, when he was just 19, had only a mediocre year in 1956 (7-6). When Von struck out 243 batters this spring in his senior year in high school, big-league scouts swarmed around the McDaniel cotton farm once again. But father Newell McDaniel had his mind made up. "Just like Lindy, the price is $50,000," he said. "There's no bidding. I want the two boys to play together." Hastily, Cardinal President Gussie (Budweiser) Busch dug up another $50,000 for another McDaniel...
Born on a farm outside Plainview, Texas, Country Boy Dean worked at cleaning neighbors' henhouses and picking cotton. Sundays he would sit at an old upright and play religious and "inspirational" songs. After a stint as an oiler in the merchant marine, he joined the Air Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs...
...Cotton Mather said: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
...speaking on the 1 and 2 followed by The Reverend Leonard G. Clough on August 5, 6, 7, and Professor Robert G. McCloskey on August 8 and 9. On August 12, 13, and 14 The Reverend Samuel H. Miller will speak; on August 15 and 16 Professor Dana M. Cotton; and on August 19, 20, and 21 Mr. Walter F. Smith...