Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cotton Senators were seriously impressed by the news that many British looms were being altered to accommodate short-staple Brazilian cotton, that disused Southern farm and gin machinery and some 800 cotton workers had already migrated to Brazil. And the Senate Finance Committee had been candidly informed by Vice President Russell E. Watson of Johnson & Johnson.(surgical dressings) that his firm was about to open a plant in Brazil to supply South American customers now serviced by its U. S. plants...
...Whitney constructed a violin before he was 12, was an expert nail-maker at 16. In 1793 he invented a machine in which a toothed cylinder forced raw cotton through a mesh screen, thus separating the lint from the seeds. Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent was signed by President George Washington and two members of his Cabinet on March 14, 1794, and U. S. cotton, then no more than the material for a piddling domestic industry, began its history as a world commodity...
...trouble, on the other hand, lay in the fact that with Repeal, it went into the liquor business. It bought an interest in a brewery, secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like many another liquor company, Canada Dry had overestimated U. S. liquor consumption, taken a substantial...
...makes one of England's best brands of gin, the labels of which U. S. 'leggers delighted to counterfeit...
...general impression from cover to cover in every one so far is that undergraduates are gin-guzzling, dance-mad, clothes-buying, class-cutting fools. In the feature article of each one a cynical, sophisticated attitude is adopted and unprovoked attacks are flung impartially at the undergraduates, faculty, and traditions of universities in general. This, according to the recent report of the Carnegie Foundation, is definitely not the trend undergraduates are taking...