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Also Kotleti. But on Sundays they could relax. Seemingly willing to try anything, they ate goodies that might have produced a sort of ballet ptomaine. Cotton candy. Canarsie pizza. Chocolate ice cream sundaes with thick chocolate syrup and primed with gooey marshmallow sauce. Soft drinks. Spaghetti. Sosiski (hot dogs). Kotleti (hamburgers). More ice cream (called ice cream in Russia...
Exaggerated Importance. While many insecticides are roughly as harmless as DDT, others are considerably more poisonous to humans. But in the opinion of respected experts of the U.S. Public Health Service, none have done appreciable damage to the U.S. public or are likely to do so. In heavily sprayed cotton-growing areas of the Mississippi Delta, says Assistant Surgeon General Dr. D. E. Price, health is as good as in sparingly sprayed neighboring areas. The same-report comes from California, where insecticides are heavily sprayed on orchards and fields. Says Robert Z. Rollins, chief of the division of chemistry...
...personable, good-looking fellow. Sanders had been described as too "suave"' for Georgia's political tastes. But in running against Griffin, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and invaded the cotton lands (his wife Betty was once Georgia's "First Maid of Cotton"). He promised to try "to maintain Georgia's traditional separation.'' But he also pledged that "violence in any form will not be tolerated...
Historically, the U.S. has been the most inventive of modern nations. Telephone and television, the cotton gin and the airplane, Thomas Edison's magic lamp and Henry Ford's indestructible Model T-these are but a few of the wondrous works of Yankee tinkerers. Such inventions have enriched society and stimulated the economy by spurring consumer demand, putting men to work and raising purchasing power, which in turn spurs demand afresh...
...most obvious solution would be to kick out the price props, scrap the export subsidy, and forget all about special taxes on imports-all of which would save U.S. taxpayers $365 million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...