Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress will be shy a few of its predecessor's most flamboyant citizens (Ham Fish, "Cotton Ed" Smith, Gerald Nye, etc.). But it will have its own intriguing collection of new faces. Among them...
India. Sir Chunilal B. Mehta hoped that U.S. businessmen would not support a U.S. international policy that subsidizes exports of U.S. surplus cotton while the U.S. exhorts other nations to abolish similar artificial stimulants to their foreign trade (see Government...
...Hopson experiment was not an unqualified success: the machine picking, less selective than hand methods, produced a poorer grade of cotton. But Business Week reported last week that the saving in labor costs more than made up for the loss in quality...
...Leaf-killing dust. A prime drawback in mechanical picking is that leaves get collected along with the cotton. To get cleaner cotton, the Hopson plantation, before harvesting, defoliated the plants with cyanamid dust dropped from a plane...
...working independently of his brother Mack, unveiled his new two-row picker. Long handicapped by lack of capital, John Rust has a substantial new backer, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., which built two of his new machines for the Mississippi field tests. Like the Rusts, machinery manufacturers are convinced that cotton mechanization is just over the horizon. Last week John Rust, more impressed than he was in 1935 with the social enormity of his invention, said he was still determined to establish a foundation out of his earnings to soften the blow for cotton hands...