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Word: cottone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blytheville, Ark., Ed Anderson, 18, of Kennett, Mo., picked 99 lbs. of cotton in two hours to win the South's annual cotton-picking contest. His reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

During the next three years China will need to import large quantities of American cotton, tobacco, wheat, oil, gasoline and many manufactured articles. She will therefore need credits. The highest figure for such necessary credits given by American and Chinese economic experts is $250 million a year-a tiny fraction of what is said to be Europe's requirements. Let us scale that down to $200 million and budget for our total Three Year Plan $600 million of credits for purchases in the U.S. from this autumn to the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: REPORT ON CHINA | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...billion of "other imports" such as cotton and non-ferrous metals in the next four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Paris Plan | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...world rayon production in 1946 was only 1.7 billion Ibs., compared to 1939's 2.3 billion. Moreover, important new customers had arisen to compete with dress manufacturers for the supply; this year the U.S. rubber industry, which decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than doubled since the war began, the 900 million Ibs. being spun this year was still far short of demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rayon Scrimmage | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Canada and Latin America in general were competitors in the world market in 1939. When the war cut off traditional European customers, they found that they could do business with each other. Latin America had vegetable oils, coffee, bananas, cotton, sugar and many another tropical product that Canada wanted. The Dominion, in return, needed markets for newsprint, machinery', wheat and whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Extremely Gratifying | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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