Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrels standing beneath the eaves. In the dry season, Lois Carlson, 36, and her two children, Wayne, 9, and Lynette, 7, would take the truck to a stream half a mile away to fetch water. At the edge of Wasolo is a leper colony whose inmates produce the best cotton in Ubangi Province. They pick the bolls clean with their teeth...
Pakistan's entire economy is tightly interwoven with jute, which is second only to cotton as the world's most widely used natural plant fiber. Last week Pakistan's vital jute industry was snarled in a strike of nearly 60,000 workers who are demanding higher wages. Some mills were the scenes of clashes, and others resolutely evicted all workers. The mood was different at the mills of one jute maker, who has retained the good will of his striking workers by continuing to provide them with their regular fringe benefits of inexpensive company housing and rice...
...unchallenged as the nation's No. 1 college team. Michigan defeated Ohio State 10-0, winning its first Big Ten Championship in 14 years and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Backing into bowls, fourth-ranked Nebraska, though upset 17-7 by Oklahoma, will go to the Cotton Bowl, and ninth-ranked Syracuse, despite a 28-27 defeat by West Virginia, received a Sugar Bowl invitation...
...list of exceptions included machine tools, electrical equipment, trucks, buses and even nuclear reactors-and compared poorly with the U.S. list which totaled only 8% of dutiable imports. Britain named coal, lead and zinc, plastic products and many cotton textiles in a list that covered 5% of its imports. Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland offered to slice all their tariffs in half if other nations reciprocate. And a delegate from Czechoslovakia showed up as the only Communist to offer a number of concessions that would align his country with GATT to a limited extent, thus demonstrating the shifting economic...
...China's'trade with non-Communist countries has burgeoned from $673.9 million a decade ago to a record $1.8 billion this year, itself 20% above 1963.-Peking imports fertilizer, cotton, chemicals, steel and industrial machinery, exports soybeans, coal, iron ore, rice, tea and hog bristles...