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...great State fairs of the season opened in Shreveport, La., with all attendance records broken from Minne sota to Texas. The farmers were better dressed and had more money to spend; the exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts...
Every day bale upon bale of towels, sweatshirts, football togs, underwear, and other equipment is dumped into three huge machines in a University laundry whose equal only the Army can boast. Two barrels of soap even larger than the one John Hawkins hid in are consumed every week in washing the equipment; plenty of "sour" is added to spike any and all odors; and the bleach removes stains and discoloring...
...spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
...great fists in his coat pockets. Deep in his heavy chops he grips a cigar the size of an auto's gearshift, and like a gearshift the cigar slides slickly from point to point along the wide mouth. A mountain in a white suit, rumpled, tired, his whitening bale of hair shaking as he walks, the 61-year-old labor leader strolls and ponders...
Senator: "I'd like to see some of you fellows who wear out desk tops in Washington set to raising cotton. After you finally got one bale, you'd be so damned tired you'd think you ought to get a dollar a pound...