Word: cotton
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...side its homeland, Bunge & Born is the mightiest trading company south of the Equator and one of the biggest in the world. In Argentina, the company and its subsidiaries handle one-quarter of all wheat exports, manufacture 85% of the nation's tin cans, operate the biggest cotton mill and paint factory, and produce a bewildering variety of other products ranging from drugs to cake mixes. And the Argentine operations are only a beginning: with branches in 80 countries, stretching from Switzerland to Japan and dealing in everything from tallow to steel, the Bunge & Born empire last year...
...England, including a V-neck pullover at $24.50 and a cardigan for $29.50. Sak's also features the 100 per cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light this imported jacket from mark. It comes in old gold and olive and is priced at only...
...other Bantu kingdoms, and to the ten regional districts, which are equally jealous of their separate identity. Although per capita income averages only $65 a year, Uganda has enjoyed a favorable balance of trade for the past 25 years. But falling world prices for its principal exports-coffee and cotton-have eaten up the accumulated reserves and this year caused a budget deficit of $10 million...
...tactics alone are seldom enough to protect the tender plants of modern, high-yield farms, the use of insecticides is economically necessary. Tests run by the Department of Agriculture show that failure to use pesticides would cost a major part of many crops; a 20-year study proved that cotton yields would be cut by 40%. Production of many kinds of fruit and vegetables would be impossible; unsprayed apple trees, for instance, no longer yield fruit that is sound enough to be marketed.*Potato fields swept by the Colorado beetle or late blight (the fungus that caused the great Irish...
...America were to adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America's current corn, cotton and wheat surpluses...