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Word: cottone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every dollar FLC drained off there would be one less dollar for foreign buyers to spend for U.S. exports. Thus the only sales'of any size to foreign governments have been $8 million of railroad equipment to the oil-rich Iranian Government, and 48,000 bales of cotton sold to Belgium for $5.4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURPLUS PROPERTY: Who'll Buy? | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Blunts formed the Red River Valley Popcorn Co., built a $25,000 processing plant, began urging Oklahoma farmers to plant popcorn instead of cotton or peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Pop Goes the Corn | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...tried popcorn, 100 acres of it. Spring rains washed out 70 acres, but the croppaid off handsomely nevertheless. The remaining popcorn yielded $135 an acre (on land worth only $50 an acre) in weather that almost ruined Oklahoma's cotton crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Pop Goes the Corn | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Cotton. The OPA authorized a 10% increase in the manufacturer's price of virtually all combed cotton fabrics. Reason : the Bankhead Amendment, which recently raised the parity price of cotton. Eventually, the boost will be passed on to consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Facts & Figures, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Last week 300 citizens of Darwen, a cotton-mill town in Lancashire, England, assembled to hear a talk on unemployment, a subject of vital concern to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Deadly Feeling | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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