Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
...Labor's plan. Tripartite committees, with management, labor and public members, will shape the policies by which British industries will live in home and world markets. Already, the Board of Trade president crowed, such groups are getting to work in the boot and shoe, hosiery, furniture, pottery and cotton industries...
...plant in Memphis where automatic cotton-pickers will be mass-produced for the first time. (Tentative price of the picker...
Into booming, industrial São Paulo poured Japs by the hundred. Members of Brazil's huge (260,000) Japanese colony, they had sold their rice paddies and cotton fields, had come to the city to celebrate the triumphant arrival of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Henchmen of mysterious, begoggled Toyojito Sugai handed them Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor and news bulletins which announced: "Americans defeated in 15-minute naval battle; 400 U.S. ships sunk...
...could exports pay the way. All of the 41 sugar centrals were damaged by the Japs, and much sugar land was ruined in an abortive Jap attempt to raise cotton. In the tobacco-growing Cagayan Valley in northeastern Luzon, only one cigar factory escaped serious damage. (The tobacco industry once furnished 25% of Government revenues.) The rich gold mines (prewar output $39,000,000) were caved in and looted of machinery. Small farmers have no tools; most of their clumsy carabaos, the Filipinos' animal of all work, had been slaughtered for food...