Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre Philippine sugar-cane industry, deprived of its U.S. market and unable to compete with The Netherlands East Indies, Indo-China and Formosa, appeared to be doomed. To support 3,000,000 sugar workers, Japan was frantically trying to make headway with a five-year cotton-growing plan...
...Women and children are being evacuated. Governor Pierre Boisson ordered them to leave, remembering how civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of France. A serious housing shortage has arisen. There is plenty to eat, [but] there is no gasoline. Huge piles of cotton, tanned hides, coconuts, coffee, dried fish and tons of vegetable oils are rotting in the warehouses or on the wharves. Planters fear they will lose fortunes...
...From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials of human happiness," she wrote, "are placed at the disposal of the real administrators of this great country...
Then, on June 11, 1940, came the first air raid. It was little more than a token to show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...Floyd Weaver had kept his ear to the ground he might have heard Georgia cotton and peanut farmers grumbling: one time farm workers were making $5, $6, $7 a day, and more, at war plants; long-opened cotton was standing unpicked in the fields; peanuts were languishing underground. Farmers, putting their wives and children to work, could not pick all the cotton, dig all the peanuts. They could not even pay farm hands $2 or $3 a day. They did not blame the workers...