Word: pickers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...
...Alabama cotton picker, with a white maternal great-grandfather and a white paternal great-great-grandfather, Joseph Louis Barrow went to Detroit with his widowed mother when he was five, attended school until he was 14, left to learn to be a cabinet maker. In 1933, when he was 19, he entered the National A. A. U. championships. In 1934 he won the light heavyweight championship in Chicago's Golden Gloves tournament and the National A. A. U. light heavyweight title. Detroit's shrewd Negro Lawyer John Roxborough, with a small fortune made by familiarizing Detroit Negroes with...
Born in Alabama, but not superstitious, Jesse Owens is the son of a onetime cotton picker, now unemployed, who lives in Cleveland with his wife and eight other children. Total income of the Owens family is estimated at $7 a week. When Mrs. Owens applied for relief, she was refused on the ground that the family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom...
...last season in Arkansas fields wondered why it had not been invented before. It traveled down the rows leaving the open bolls stripped (see cut), the green bolls unharmed. It picked up no, rubbish. In seven and a half hours it gathered as much cotton as a diligent hand-picker gathers in an eleven-week season...
...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...