Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm message was of a piece with other bits of farm policy that had slipped by all but unnoticed in the crowded early days of the New Frontier. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's first major official act was to raise cotton subsidies, a move that drew jeers from just about everybody except cotton farmers. Pointing out that hefty U.S. cotton exports had been cutting down the cotton surplus, the Farm Bureau Federation's President Charles Shuman groaned that Freeman's decision would "reverse these favorable trends" by pricing...
...arrow eventually bids you turn to Life's tour map, and repeats an estimate that this year 20 million Americans will buy cotton candy at Southern tourist traps. These they enumerate on the following three pages, beneath the heading, "What to see at the Battlesites...
...Master of Leverett House and for five years chairman of the General Education Program, Murdock is a scholar of the history and literature of the 17th Century. Known especially for his studies of the literature of Colonial New England, he is the general editor of a forthcoming edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalla Christl Americans...
...misunderstood. Says Leontyne: "Everyone finds it so amazing that two families should love each other in the middle of Mississippi which is, let's face it, a red-hot state where my ancestors were not so high on the social scale. Well, that hasn't got a cotton-pickin' thing to do with it. There wasn't anything in the world Mrs. Chisholm wouldn't have done for me. But she was my friend first and my benefactress second-whatever I turned out to be, and even if I didn't turn...
Commenting on the annual problem of sorting applications, Cotton said that he "very strongly" disapproved of the idea of a central admissions agency that would serve many colleges. "A centralized office lacks the type of individual attention we like to give to our applicants. It would also tend to place too much importance on test scores...