Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After this outburst, no more until Thursday, when up rose the Senate's ancient Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina. Baggy-faced, walrussy Cotton Ed, 79, went farthest South yet in criticism of Franklin Roosevelt, bitter sneers that were heard with laughter, nods, and in warm silence...
...idea of saying that Harry Byrd led a conspiracy. Conspiracy against what? It was a conspiracy on behalf of the Constitution of the United States, if it was a conspiracy at all. If he led a conspiracy, I was one of the conspirators. Of course they would say, ' "Cotton Ed" Smith, that dirty dog, yes. . . .' If the people of the South organize and stand by their self-respect, if they organize and say 'We are going to vote for the man of our choice,' there will never be another Democratic President-I mean of a certain...
When buttermen refused to sell at his prices, he imported Argentine butter and sold it at low prices until he broke them down. When cheap cloth got scarce, he compelled all cotton mills to produce one tenth of their export cloth in popular styles, had the goods sold at "yardstick" prices through portable street stores. They were mobbed by pushing housewives, and soon cloth prices in regular stores went down. In some cases of speculation or hoarding, he turned to outright requisition...
Brazil was in a mess. Even before she entered the war, the U-boats had smashed the vital shipping routes along her 4,899-mile coastline. She was starved for imported manufactures. Buyers were scarce for her coffee, cotton, cacao. The Allies were screaming for unheard-of amounts of manganese, rubber, bauxite, mica, other strategic materials...
...quiet. Occasional outbursts scorch and blacken the countryside, but they always have a limited objective. In some sectors remote from the heart of Free China, the Japs and the Chinese even, fraternize at arms' distance. Chinese and Japanese officers sometimes share fabulous profits from the smuggling of tungsten, cotton, wool, tin, tung oil, U.S. bank notes. Chinese divisions in the war-quiet areas operate their own factories and farms, direct their energies toward a stable military economy. The Japanese rarely molest them. These activities cannot be judged by Western standards; they are the natural consequences of a long, stalemated...