Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rheumatic old King Cotton let out a loud roar. Partly a roar of defiance, partly a roar of pain, it rose up out of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, where the National Cotton Council was assembled in annual meeting...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...
Along with symptoms of new vigor, old King Cotton also exhibited symptoms of chronic weaknesses. So the Department of Agriculture diagnosed last week...
Most important of all, the republics set to work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
...staying power the three volumes are certainly worth the price as a 1) folksy, firsthand account of the making of the 46th state and the unmaking of one of America's last big frontiers; the description, told with disarming simplicity, of Murray's rise from boy cotton picker to governor; 2) for a homespun insistence on the dignity of the individual man, the value of personal enterprise and the danger of increasing Government power; 3) the Murray version of Oklahoma's troubled politics. The three volumes are also a fabulous item of Americana...