Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Price supports for cotton are necessary, so the politicos say, to protect the nation's host of small farmers. But last week Delaware's Senator John Williams dug out facts to show that the gravy goes to a few big farmers. Williams inserted in the Congressional Record a list of 297 cotton farmers who in 1958 received price-support loans of more than...
Stampede. Three days later near Gerona, dressed in a peasant "monkey suit" of blue cotton, Sabater knocked on the door of a poor farmer named Juan Salas. "Do you have anything to eat?" he asked. "No, nothing at all," replied Salas. Sabater handed 250 pesetas to the farmer's wife and said: "See if one of your neighbors can sell you something to eat. Eggs, any thing." Sabater watched her carefully while she walked to a farmhouse half a mile away, then signaled the rest of the gang to come out of the brush and join...
Died. Omer Carmichael, 66, Alabama cotton farmer's son and onetime backwoods teacher, who as superintendent (since 1945) of the Louisville, Ky. school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
...Hong Kong, the newly formed Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers (for the U.S.A.) Assoc., fearful of U.S. tariffs against their ever increasing garment exports, set up a voluntary three-year quota system for shipments of cotton goods to the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 14). With the blessing of the colony's government, the new restrictions limit 1960 exports to the U.S. to the 1959 figures plus a 15% increase; in each of the next two years, there would be an additional 10% increase...
...voluntary quotas. "We're interested in U.S. control, not what Hong Kong tells us that they are going to ship," said one garment-industry official. The U.S. garment industry feels that other low-wage countries will follow Hong Kong's earlier example in sending quota-free cotton goods to the U.S., knocking the bottom out of many products of the U.S. textile industry. Thus, despite Hong Kong's restrictions, U.S. garment makers will continue to lobby for tighter legislative restrictions on garment imports into...