Word: cottone
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...