Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...professional of Sotogrande is Henry Cotton, the former British Open winner who was previously the pro at the Penina golf course in Portugal. Vik finished 35th in the World Amateur Championship played at Penina in October. Cotton fled to Sotogrande after the recent leftwing takeover in Portugal when his books were audited and the Penina caddies siezed the clubhouse after forming a revolutionary brigade...
...second largest textile manufacturer in the nation, J.P. Stevens currently pays its employees $54--31 per cent--less than the national average weekly wage for unionized textile workers. Thousands of J.P. Stevens workers have been disabled by byssinosis (brown lung), a disease caused by exposure to cotton dust levels three times as high as those permitted under national minimum health standards...
...forgotten when he died in penury in 1940. He was a mild, slender, clerkish-looking and almost incredibly tenacious man named Lewis Hine. Lugging his clumsy 5-by-7 camera into the factories and mines and sweatshops of America, from the immigrant queues of Ellis Island to the cotton mills of North Carolina, Hine did for the laboring poor of his country what Henry Mayhew had done for London workers in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign. He identified a class and made it visible. Before him, Jacob Riis had taken a camera into the slums...
...fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys in a Pennsylvania coal mine, or the raw-fingered, oyster-shucking children of New England, or the wan cotton-mill girls against their enveloping perspectives of white bobbins, has not been equaled since...