Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S MARCH 3 STORY ON CHINA . . . NANKING EMBASSY AUTHORITIES WISH TO DENY YOUR WASHINGTON HEARSAY. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO BUMBLE OR ERROR BY ANY NANKING EMBASSY CLERK IN TRANSMISSION OF UNRRA DEPUTY DIRECTOR JACKSON'S CABLE ON CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S PLEA FOR MORE COTTON AND CEREALS. IF WASHINGTON HEARD THE CONTRARY, WASHINGTON DIDN'T HEAR RIGHT...
...take cotton. To control imports and foreign exchange-and eliminate old-fashioned risk-the British planners have shut down, presumably forever, the great Liverpool Cotton Exchange, where for decades British buyers and world sellers took the risks and losses and profits of the cotton trade. A British Government commission now does Britain's cotton buying. Britain's spinners now pay more for their cotton than spinners elsewhere with access to free markets, but British planners argue that, if they relax their trade tourniquets too much, the economy may bleed to death...
Sixty-five-year-old Roy Cullen started life as a $3-a-week underling in the office of a San Antonio cotton broker. In 1911, he switched to real estate and then...
...weaknesses. He wants to use some of the threefold increase Rio granted for his next year's budget to build more schools. The hospital, too, needs funds. So far, the colony has concentrated on rice as a cash crop; Sayão is not sure but that cotton or coffee might be better. Also, the road that was the colony's lifeline leads only to Anapolis' one-horse railway. Now Sayão is driving the highway some 130 miles beyond his colony's limits, to the banks of the Tocantins. There his trucks may meet...
...King Cotton," by John Philip Sousa; Princeton Medley, by Anderson; "Strike Up the Band," by George Gerchwin, "Prayer of Thanksgiving," by H. Kromsor. Stars and Stripes Forever," by Sousa; "Fair Harvard," arranged by Anderson...