Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the Southern weather turns warm at the end of this month, farmers in Mississippi and Alabama will have their 1970 cotton crop in the ground and growing...
farming-last year the co-op raised cotton, soybeans, and vegetables on its initial 40 acres. The income from the cotton and soybeans will go toward repaying the $12,000 mortgage left on the land, while the vegetables were distributed to the families...
...fancier's Golconda. In a pre-paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In the musty chaos of books-memoirs, Shakespeare, Chinese history, the Arctic, the Civil...
...Parachute regiments have been in Chad since last April. The huge, landlocked former French colony is one of the world's poorest countries, with 3,500,000 people and a yearly per-capita income of $40. For more than five years, northern Arabs have been ravaging cotton fields and raiding government offices in the south in an effort to topple the corrupt but pro-French regime in Fort-Lamy. Paris is so disturbed by the rebel threat that, as part of its recent Mirage-jet deal, it won Libya's promise not to support the Arab struggle...
Hilton Head Island is an unspoiled little Eden off the coast of South Carolina. Once renowned for its cotton crop, it has now been redeveloped as a green enclave of wealth and leisure. Most of the private homes have been built by retired corporate executives. They know about pollution-many of them have run polluting industries...