Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the German product, Lyterlife is non-liquid in the tube and remains non-liquid even after being fed into the lighter which is accomplished via the "force-feed" system. This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid...
Across Georgia's boundary and through most of South Carolina the terrain is rolling pinewoods, fields of broomstraw, greywhite cotton acres ruled off with black furrows. Beyond Spartanburg, S. C. the passengers could see King's Mountain thrusting its razor back out of the foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay...
...Agriculture inquiry into cotton price...
Whether or not Farmer W. Parker Perry of Somerset, N. J. ever read of Icarus * is not a matter of record. But it is recorded that seven years ago Farmer Perry, then 26, fashioned himself a pair of wings of wood & cotton, climbed to the top of his barn, jumped. Not badly hurt, he tried another "flight," was not badly hurt. Picking himself up the second time, Farmer Perry announced with evident satisfaction: "I didn't hit as hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar...
...orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong's Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra. Embraceable You and / Got Rhythm (Victor)-Arden's and Ohman's- percussive ways are best suited to George Gershwin's music. The tunes are the best from Girl Crazy. Can This be Love? and Three Little Words (Columbia)-Two best-sellers mellowed by the Ipana (Toothpaste...