Word: threads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first she unraveled cotton yarn herself, wound it on corncobs; later a nearby thread mill made it for her. Her backyard was full of bedspreads bleaching in the sun. On each one she made about $1.75 less the cost of materials...
...Railroads are beginning to thread their way through these new industrial centres. Hydroelectric plants are being completed...
Jitterbugs are not crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...
Chief reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped...
...married a white woman) would cause race riots. Of all the bumper crop of white hopes raised to beat Johnson, the choice of Roosevelt I and of Gentleman Jim Corbett was the then reigning national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell...