Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quelled or Quiescent? British troops, ships and planes converged on Bombay, as rioters swept through the town, setting fire to banks, government grain shops, a cotton mill, a train, British cars, British stores. Night & day they fought police and Tommies, stoned British civilians. British authorities declared a state of "absolute rebellion," ordered loyal troops to "shoot to kill" anyone moving on the streets at night. Before the mutiny ended, casualties mounted to 240 killed, more than 1,300 injured. On the other side of India, demonstrators surged through the streets of Calcutta, and sympathy strikers tied up transportation...
...take for granted the interdependence ... of the wheat farmer of the Dakotas, the cotton grower of the Carolinas or the market gardener of California [with] the miner in Pennsylvania and the manufacturer in New York. . . . The interdependence of the world economy is less apparent. But it is quite as real...
Prosperous Bankrupts. Despite all this, roads in reorganization have made so much money during the war that they are actually solvent. Some examples: in four and a half years, the Cotton Belt (St.Louis-Southwestern) earned its annual interest charges 42 times and made about $150 a common share to boot; in 1944, the Missouri Pacific had excess profits of $46,380,000-larger than any other railroad system in the U.S. except the Santa Fe. Yet the Cotton Belt, Mopac and other roads with good wartime profit records continue in reorganization...
...save King Cotton from the grave politicians have dug, the U.S. is now trying to reach an agreement with other cotton-producing countries to set prices and production quotas. In this way it hopes that the mountainous world carryover can be absorbed eventually and everybody, including the U.S., be guaranteed a share of the world market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics...
Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...