Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Week. Farmer Anderson woke just before 5 a.m. As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke...
...dominant Apra party picked up a few seats in the House, but failed to gain a majority in the Senate. The chief congressional issue: re-servicing of bond issues floated in the U.S. in 1927-28. Apra wants to pay up, then get more U.S. credits. Apra's cotton and sugar baron opponents fight any scheme that would give Apra funds for its industrializing and irrigation plans...
...veto of the emasculated OPA bill a week ago was perhaps the bravest thing he has done since entering the White House. But revived hopes for a genuinely effective price control bill have faded once again in the face of amendments to the new bill to exempt oil, cotton, and pulp products from control, the Taft proposal for manufacturer's profits and the delaying tactics of Senators Wherry and O'Daniel. Thus the bitter paradox continues by which the majority of people, who ardently desire the retention of price controls are defied by their elected representatives...
...Deal left everyone resentful. The U.S. was huffed at a projected bilateral deal counter to Washington's cherished plans for free, multilateral trade. (In view of the way the U.S. subsidizes cotton exports and keeps her tariffs up, this often seems hypocritical to other nations...
...tightening their belts to export, the British had boosted machinery exports to 123% of the May 1938 volume. The cotton yarn and textile industry, traditionally a big exporter, was well below the May 1938 volume. One reason: lack of machinery, some of it of the same type being exported. In coal, another mainstay of British exports, the picture was no better. Exports were only 369,757 tons v. 3,000,000 in an average month of 1938. Again the trouble was lack of machinery, antiquated methods, shortage of manpower. Moreover, unless slipping coal production could be boosted, the entire export...