Word: lint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...
...businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder she doesn't have lint on the lungs...
...Yields about 25% more cotton lint per acre than the best previous strains...
...weeks ravenous U.S. cigaret smokers had disconsolately puffed noninflammable cigarets with strange trade names, most of which tasted like burning lint. Now the customers straggled vainly from store to store in the futile effort to find even these brands. By last week, the U.S. cigaret shortage had turned into a famine...
...discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes her two love affairs intelligent, sad, dignified. Vincent (The Hard Way) Sherman's direction of a careful cast turns a negligible play not so much into cinema as into good average theater...