Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were on their way to the Paraguayan Chaco, where Canadian and European Mennonites, in settlements now decades old, have made the swampy wilderness bear fat crops of cotton and kaffir corn. There the immigrants will have a chance to prove by the banks of the Paraguay what their co-religionists have proved by the banks of the Susquehanna, the Dnieper and Canada's Red River-that Menno Simons' followers are among the world's best farmers...
...Cotton. 4. Livestock...
...pegged at 12,000. But the deeper trouble would be much more difficult to reach without U.S. help. Chinese foreign exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China's cities are not making pants to trade with China's farmers for rice, widespread starvation in the cities may result...
...million Export-Import Bank loan, which has long been earmarked for China. In Nanking T. V. Soong tried to persuade UNRRA's fast-talking Deputy Director General R. G. A. Jackson to drop UNRRA's present relief program and instead to procure 1,000,000 bales of cotton and 200,000 tons of cereals for sale on China's open market at fixed prices...
...Cotton Mather, Josiah Quincy, Harrison Gray Otis and Abbot Lawrence Lowell are only a few of the more prominent veterans of the Commencement platform, according to Packard...