Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change in an election year -and the Johnson Administration, with Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's support, put immense pressure upon Senate Democrats to pass the new farm bill, particularly the wheat part. And so the Senate last week wheezed its approval of a two-year $1 billion wheatand-cotton subsidy bill. It was, of course, just another of those legislative thingamajigs that have for decades contributed so much to the continuing U.S. farm scandal...
...have watched that margin melt away. First came the attrition caused by President Kennedy's assassination. Then more avowed and write-in candidates got into the race. Then Barry dispersed slapdash political ideas in a lackluster campaign. Now, with the presidential primary coming up next week, Senator Norris Cotton, who is Goldwater's New Hampshire manager, admitted that "anything above 40% of the vote will be a victory...
...threat of nationalization, Europe's middle classes have generally preferred to sock away their savings in banks, bonds and real estate. But Europe's continually rising economic prosperity -and its inflation-is changing long-held aversions to stock investments. Having already adopted supermarkets, trading stamps and cotton candy, Europeans are naturally turning to American stocks. Current favorites: IBM, General Motors...
...pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through...
Under Pusey, Sizer has taken an active part in the administration of the Graduate School of Education. The four-man administrative council which handles the day-to-day operations of the Ed School includes Sizer, Ed School secretary Dana Cotton, and assistant deans Edward G. Kaebler and Joseph J. Young...