Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single tuxedoed commentator who bein harsh and unsparing tones that are properly sepulcomes a sort of auctor ex machina) introduces the play chral. As for the rest, Jane Quigley's nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids at home...
...Grass Roots Grow. Though Fall River citizens have reason to envy a good education-only 3% are college graduates, and almost 40% never finished grammar school-Fradkin at first doubted that many could spare even $1. The average annual salary in the town, a once flourishing cotton manufacturing center, was $3,000. But in the first year he raised $4,500 to finance 24 scholarships...
...wine to Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple than any other country, but exports little) is barely tapped...
...fight was started by the rayon manufacturers in dismay over nylon's inroads into a market that rayon had dominated since it knocked out cotton tire cord after World War II. Developing a new, high-strength rayon called Tyrex, the rayon companies formed an association to promote it, even sent teams to high schools to lecture teenagers on the superiority of Tyrex over nylon. Nylon makers, led by Chemstrand Corp.. fought back not only with advertising but with price cuts. Before long, tire-cord prices dropped so sharply that the rayon makers, working on tighter profit margins, found...
...such idea in mind, Khrushchev answered with a smile: "Ah-a capitalist, not an incendiary." Another time, Khrushchev and Secretary of State Dean Rusk got into a debate on dwarf corn. Khrushchev declared that it could not be grown in quantity. Rusk, who was born on a Georgia cotton farm, insisted that Khrushchev was wrong, and promised to send him some samples. But Khrushchev caught Rusk's hint that the U.S. could grow corn better than Russia could, argued that the problem was not the grain itself but the Soviet Union's lack of machinery and fertilizer. Once...