Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foolish to expect a war-ravaged country such as the Philippines to diversify her entire economy in eight years so that other exports might fill the gap caused by a sugar barrier. Traditionally, sugar is to the Filipino standard of living as coffee is to the Brazilians or cotton to Mississippi growers. The comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from...
Down Texas way, the saying is, "It's becoming more difficult to get into college everyday," or at least so 11-year-old Thomas Van Auken's father seems to think. Threatening to become the youngest applicant for admission since Cotton Mather, Tommie invaded the University Wednesday accompanied by Russell B. Howe of Boston, a friend of the family...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...
...Gammexane, claimed to be five times as deadly as DDT (TIME, May 28, 1945). It has an unpleasant naphthalene smell, lacks DDT's lasting effect. It is particularly potent against cockroaches, proved effective in checking a locust plague in Sardinia this spring, and has shown promise against the cotton boll weevil. But in the sunny U.S. climate it has been generally less lethal than in foggy Britain...
...than industrial and commercial workers (13,171). The annual per capita income of the 1¼ million population is only $6. Because there is just one 274-mile railway and little more than 500 miles of improved roads, oxcarts still carry the bulk of the country's cotton, tobacco, quebracho extract (tannin...