Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation surfeited with material abundance, but now it may be on the verge of a comeback. At the height of its biggest boom, the U.S. seems almost to be based on an economy of scarcity. Shortages of an astounding variety of goods-fuel oil, nonferrous metals, wool, copper, cotton denims, vinyl records, plastic bottles, to name a few-are jacking up prices, interfering with production, and in some cases directly threatening American living standards...
Long Wait. In New York, the National Association of Purchasing Management polled its members and found that products ranging from aluminum, copper and zinc to paper (both shipping boxes and office stationery), cotton, chemicals and corn syrup were available only after long waits for delivery. The McDonough Power Equipment Co., which makes lawnmowers and garden equipment, fears that the new plant it will open next spring will not be able to operate at capacity because it will not be able to get enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because...
...Clare Cotton, B.U.'s vice-president for Public Affairs, testified Wednesday afternoon that he had seen Ostrow at the front of the demonstration but that he had not seen him physically stopping anyone who wanted to pass the blockade...
...clothes provided for the children are of a rough cotton fabric and they rarely fit the child who wears them. Oftentimes, there aren't enough clothes to go around for all the residents in the ward...
Defense further objected that Cotton's testimony was irrelevant, since he could not identify Ostrow in the crowd at those times when he said he saw people blocked from entering the Castle...