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Wyman readily accepted the challenge of allying himself with Ford policies. He echoed a repeated Ford complaint about the evils of relying too much on Washington. "I want the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin' hands out of our business unless there's something we absolutely can't handle," Wyman declared. The pitch did not work. Wyman failed to carry nine of the 14 towns in which Ford campaigned for him. Nor did he win in Manchester, where California's Conservative Ronald Reagan stumped...
...present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern agriculture, which was multi-crop, and Southern agriculture, which grew only cotton...
...Algiers, La., less than an hour after Hirt's previous marriage of 33 years ended in divorce. Hirt is almost as famous for his heft (over 250 lbs. at the last weigh-in) as for his high-volume horn. His hits include such brassy tunes as Java, Cotton Candy and Fly Me to the Moon, which was piped into outer space in 1965 to help the Gemini 7 astronauts relax...
...proved in 1948. But when it became apparent that the condition of many of the ballots in question was going to make it impossible for the Senate to declare a winner, and even the Democrats, who badly wanted their party to gain the seat vacated by Republican hardliner Norris Cotton, began calling for a new election, Durkin refused to change his position. So Wyman was able to portray himself as the champion of letting the electorate make the choice, with Durkin appearing anxious to take the decision away from the people of New Hampshire. And when the inevitable happened...
...that largely home-taught genius Eli Whitney, when he set up a factory to make muskets. Whitney established the American vernacular: economy, simplicity and flexibility, which, in industrial terms, were translated as quantity, standardization and interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created...