Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women must still wait for nylons (Byrnes's explanation: "When I thought we had all the nylon we needed for parachutes, I found we needed it for tires. Then, when we found we had all we needed for tires, we were told that cotton netting used in the Pacific was rotting and we'd have to use nylon there. Then it was decided that knapsacks could be made much lighter with nylon...
Fighting for the return of the $2 shirt and the 98? cotton housedress, Chester Bowles last week led his Office of Price Administration into another skirmish. He ordered some 309,000 retailers' mark-up of clothing and some household furnishings prices frozen at March 19 levels...
With King Farouk. "The President referred to the purchase by the United States of large quantities of long-staple Egyptian cotton during the war and stressed the hope that greatly increased exchange of other commodities would be developed in the future. . . . Tourist travel to Egypt, the President said, was certain to become greater after the war than before...
...every commodity trader knows, the farm bloc's votes are as good as Bankhead's expansive promises. Therefore the traders cheerfully hoisted cotton prices another $1.30 a bale, pushed grain prices...
...Cotton Textile Institute trumpeted the charge that the order would slash cotton-mill profits by some $300 million a year. OPA's Chester Bowles angrily replied that such a charge was "fantastic." The price boss, patently worried about the runaway textile market, estimated that mill profits at the beginning of 1945 were running at the rate of about $365 million a year (v. $28 million a year average in 1936-1939). He said that his fight for lower textile prices would lop a mere $40 million off these lush earnings...