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...WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, detailing Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President...
...promised to share the Colorado for irrigation purposes, and guaranteed Mexico 1,500,000 acre-feet of water each year. Mexico built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose salt content rose alarmingly from 800 parts per million to more than...
Agents for the Iron Curtain fleets have snatched away from West German shipowners almost all the $10 million worth of dried-fruit shipments from Greece and Turkey to Europe by cutting rates from $16 per ton to $9." They have knocked $6 per ton off the price of shipping cotton, $4 per ton off the rate for iron ore. The Poles will haul steel beams from Benelux ports to Cairo for $1.30 less per ton than West European lines; the East Germans won a contract to deliver 25,000 Dutch TV sets to Syria with a bid nearly 60% lower...
Besides Dean Miller, the faculty group supporting the boycott includes: George H. Williams, professor of Church History; James Luther Adams, professor of Ethics: George Ernest Wright, professor of Old Testament; and James Harry Cotton, professor of Church...
Died. Robert Lee Thornton, 83, mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and the city's No. 1 booster for four decades; after a long illness; in Dallas. The son of a tenant cotton farmer who built a tiny mortgage business into the $450 million Mercantile National Bank (one of Dallas' Big Three), Thornton was head of a host of civic organizations that helped bring in the Dallas Symphony, the 1935 Texas Centennial, and an annual state fair the likes of which even Texans had never seen...