Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other skirmishes loomed around workers in the South's leading cotton mills. Van Bittner, bulky chief of C.I.O. organizers, summoned a council of war next week at Columbia, S.C. to map regional strategy. "The cotton textile industry offers the widest field," said Bittner, naming North Carolina's Cannon towel mills and Georgia's Bibb Manufacturing Co. as redoubts to be taken...
...Central Government, on its part, has cornered the cotton market by nationalizing the cotton mills taken over from the Japs. Its loans enabled one private syndicate to control the rice black market in Shanghai. The Government also has tied up the market for trucks in China by "temporarily" halting importation of new trucks from America. The Government wants to sell some 15,000 trucks, originally designed for the Burma and Ledo roads and capable of an uneconomical four miles to the gallon...
Between warm afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...
...less than three years. Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...