Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture] the Negro king & queen of the Cotton Carnival? Anyone in Memphis five minutes would know the whole carnival centers around the duly selected [white] king & queen. You have done Memphis and the Cotton Carnival an injustice in such distorted reporting...
...invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
...stubble field on the outskirts of Regina, nine tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt...
Would it soon be over in other textiles? Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, said: "The appearance of scarcity has been deliberately created." Actually, said he, cotton-textile production was 12% above...
...York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once, watching Negro field hands, he turned to Grafton, wisecracked: "Uncle Sam, meet Uncle...