Word: ginning
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...Eliot laughed and finished off A jereboam of gin...
...unyielding soil and unpredictable weather, the boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
...there are still buildings to put up, and still gin mills to tell stories in, and if you should join us in one of them some night, we'll tell you the rest of it. It's easier to tell stories than to write them, anyway...
...into the job that he never really answers any important questions about ironworkers. If we want to find out what the men are like, or even what their jobs make them like, we miss out. Cherry's narrative is always at the workplace--when he moves to the gin mills the talk is usually of the work. We get page after page, with diagrams, of how a derrick is set up and how a Chicago boom operates. This might be something a worker has to think about on his job, but it says little about, say, how he relates...
...guys down at the West Side were pretty shady looking characters, especially the Tech students. I remember once seeing them ahead of me while out doing some road-work, when suddenly a group of about four disappeared into the bushes. Later I learned they had a pint of sloe-gin...