Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first bale of the season...
...spectator point of view this Friday will be a whirling day of almost strident gayety. There will be long-limbed, sun-tanned girls with young men in straw hats. There will be mountains of cans of the amber pinnacle of the brewmasters' art and the ice cooled mixture of gin and olive--with just a touch of vermouth. There will be yachts and pennants and drunken old reads and drunken old blues and sports writers will duly notate the proceedings and dutifully record the color of New London on race...
Coca-cola machines throughout the College ran dry Sunday and yesterday, but there was a way out. The Harvard Provision Company said that there was busy traffic in Tom Collins mix, and of course, gin...
...young nightclub comics were feeling desperate. They had been on for ten minutes and it was still so quiet you could hear a gin fizz. The manager was waiting grimly at stageside to fire them. Suddenly they strode to a ringside table, snatched up some dishware and smashed it on the floor. The audience gasped, then shouted with laughter...
This newest fad is a riproaring, high-scoring game of the rummy family. It combines the melding features of pinochle, the building principle of gin and some of the partnership elements of bridge. What a Canasta player needs most is endurance...