Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...Cotton. Southern Methodist, with help from Doak Walker and Kyle Rote, chopped heavier Oregon down to size...
...year's end, prices of electrical appliances (refrigerators, irons, washing machines, etc.) were down 25% from their peak; cotton cloth was down again to OPA levels and below. Some prices were still rising (autos, metals, etc.), but the "cost-of-living" items (food, clothing, furniture, etc.) were coming down. A drop in retail sales had scared department stores into a rash of pre-Christmas price cutting. Even then, stores barely managed to sell as much...
Football: Cotton Bowl (Sat. 1 p.m., Mutual). S.M.U. v. Oregon. Orange Bowl (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Texas v. Georgia. Rose Bowl (Sat. 4:45 p.m., CBS). Northwestern v. California...
...high support prices for farm products were continued. In its nearly 30-year history, the federation, strongest U.S. farm lobby, has always gone down the line for price supports and for guaranteed markets. Congress had seldom failed to heed its cry. This year it was the Southern cotton and tobacco growers who came out strongest for keeping farm support prices as high as possible and for extending them to commodities that are not being supported under the present law (e.g., fruits and vegetables...