Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save the bitter one of higher taxes and continued shortages. Reparations in kind from Japan will eventually help. But Manchuria, once the white hope of China's reconstruction, has become a liability instead of an asset, thanks to Russian stripping of Japanese-built factories. A $33,000,000 cotton loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank promises to ease the textile situation. Most effective will be UNRRA's $562,000,000 shot in China's economic arm, but this will only start the job of rehabilitation...
Senator Kenneth McKellar, 77, happily availed himself of one of the cozier privileges of his pro-tern presidency of the Senate. The sulphurous, cob-nosed bachelor from Tennessee greeted visiting Gwin Barnwell, the South's "Cotton Maid," with a painstaking buss...
Defeat for OPA? Having made these strategic retreats and truces, Stabilizer Bowles made his stand against the toughest enemy of all-the cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...proposed that U.S. cotton exchanges boost margins on cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work...
...movie, Kitty is almost as blameless as Cotton Mather's third wife. But she makes out well in spite of her virtues, marrying the gouty old Duke of Malmunster and finally, after his death, falling into the arms of Sir Hugh Marcy (Ray Milland...