Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department reckons it, any grower of crops or raiser of livestock who has at least ten acres of land and markets at least $50 worth of farm goods a year counts as a "farmer." But that term includes everybody from the Southern mill hand who grows a field of cotton as a sideline, netting $70 a year on ten acres, to the Southwestern cotton baron who manages his empire from an air-conditioned office, netting $65,000 a year on 1,000 acres. The Agriculture Department offers the mill hand and the baron the same support price on their cotton...
Shop-laden Brattle St. shows some of the most interesting apparel in the area. Beginning at the Loeb Theatre end is Design Research, selling the famous Marimokko dresses in brightly colored cotton prints for $24-$38. Today or early next week they expect a new shipment of bikinis from Finland which, at $21, have been selling like hotcakes...
...specialty, however, is custom-made dresses. She will draw what you describe, take your measurements, and show you her fantastic collection of imported fabrics. Among bolts from Spain to Siam you may select a hand-screened or blocked cotton or silk. One fitting, two weeks, and $25 (and up) later, you will be the proud owner of a Kitty Haas original...
what they should put on their menus." It All Depends. Other Senators tried to pin Bobby down about just what sort and size of public facility Title II would apply to. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, the Commerce Committee's ranking Republican, wanted to know if the bill would apply to laundries and dry-cleaning establishments. Said Bobby: "I don't think they'd be covered except in very unusual circumstances -maybe if they are part of a hotel or a terminal." How about bowling alleys, pool parlors and funeral homes? He judged they would...
...termed "pneumonia and alcoholism." The widow returned to Greenwood with her son, was hospitalized several times for mental ailments, died of cancer at 47. The boy was then twelve. He was thereafter reared by an eccentric uncle, William Green Yerger, who dabbled at farming his family's remaining cotton acres. Mostly, the uncle liked to catch catfish. Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there...