Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cotton in his recent article on Harvard basketball, states that the team's poor won-and-lost record is partly due to alumni and admissions office indifference and largely due to poor coaching. Implicit in this criticism is the alarming notion that the alumni and admissions staff should actively recruit basketball players for their own sake...
However, by far the most alarming aspect of Mr. Cotton's article was his head-hunting attack on Floyd Wilson...
...COTTON replies: My principal objection to Mr. Wilson as a basketball coach was not his poor won-lost record, but rather the fact that I think playing varsity basketball has become a dissatisfying and frustrating experience under him. The poor record is only one effect of this situation and among the less important ones. I certainly do not think Harvard should attempt to improve its basketball team by recruiting, nor did I imply that it should in my article...
Flashy Stripes. To buy the film and use it costs $58 per acre, and savings in weed control average $12 per acre. At present prices for cotton, the grower would earn an extra $38 per acre by using film. Spencer Chemical Co. and Union Carbide, which manufacture the film and have developed the machines, are so certain that experience with plasticulture will bring even greater benefits that they are spending fortunes in research for the future. If this season's adventurous farmers from California to Texas harvest swollen crops, a good part of the 14,500,000 U.S. acres...
...coffee; now it takes 150 bags. In Malaya, the government has lost $60 million in export duties in the past two years because of falling rubber prices. A 50% drop in cocoa prices has forced Ghana to suspend its economic development program. When a Biblical-sized storm of cotton worms descended on Egypt's cotton crop in 1961, the damage cost Egypt nearly $200 million in foreign exchange. All of these countries have one problem in common: their economies depend heavily on a single commodity...