Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jung Yao. Last month, in Chungking, Liu and 40 other cotton-garbed soldiers climbed, grinning, into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he had fled and followed for three long years were surrendering as meekly as meadow mice. It was like a dream...
There the President made a tour of the town, dropped in to visit relatives of Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, who was with him. Then there was a 25-mile drive through the swampy cotton lands to Caruthersville (pop. 6,612), in the southeast "boot" of Missouri. When the President arrived at the Majestic Hotel's packed lobby, his face showed deep lines of weariness...
Blithe Spirit (United Artists) is as light-spun and unsubstantial as a cornucopia full of cotton candy. For people who like that kind of thing, it will be just as tasty. It is 99.9% Noel Coward, with his trademark of fashionably airy dialogue on every frame of film...
Peacetime Japan needed over 5,000,000 tons of shipping to maintain her low standard of living; now only 420,000 tons are left. There are no oil reserves left, only 5,000 tons of cotton, only 40,000 bales of wool and only 180,000 tons of steel. Where will Japan, a great processor nation, get raw materials...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...