Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trend did not change. The count gave Talmadge 117,731; whiz-bang young Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, 162,889. Despite the Palace Guard he built up during three terms, despite his rabble-rousing, nigger-hating appeal to Georgia's "wool-hat" boys (small farmers), Gene Talmadge had taken a sound trouncing...
...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...Navy air arm although no longer an outcast is still a stepchild to the Navy's battleship admirals. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, a dyed-in-the-wool aviator who has been flying since 1911, did get promoted to Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Air. But plans to make him a Vice Admiral, and to promote deserving airmen on his coattails, have been lost in the shuffle. "Jack" Towers has been excluded from powwows of the General Board, and has applied for active sea duty...
Thus Gene Talmadge, opening his campaign for a fourth term, got off to a bad start. He had more than rain to worry about: the loyal crowd of "wool-hat" boys (small farmers) who always turn out to "hear The Man," was smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
...removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...