Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pile up supplies and bring down prices over the longer term, the Administration will remove, for the first time since the Korean War, all production controls on such basic crops as wheat, cotton and livestock feeds...
...driving back to the Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan John Tower thumped for the need to increase beef production. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton told the story of how a farmer drove 100 miles to talk to him because he thought Cotton was close to Nixon and could deliver the message. Well, now he could. We once paid farmers to kill animals, the fellow told Cotton. That was wrong. Why don't we turn it around...
...border to prevent further attacks. Although Burundi is one of Africa's most overcrowded countries, with a population of 325 persons per square mile, I saw almost no one during many miles of driving in the countryside. Every dwelling has been abandoned or burned down. Fields of coffee, cotton and beans stand overgrown. At Nyanza Lac, a once-bustling village of 3,000 people on Burundi's Lake Tanganyika, the only inhabitants are wild dogs...
...weather caught the U.S. squarely in the middle. By May, 12.6 million acres in seven Midwestern and Southern states were inundated; 4,000,000 acres are still flooded. Some planned cotton crops were never planted. Anticipated corn yields in Illinois are down 10% from last year, and winter-wheat losses are high. Total flood damage is estimated at $409 million...
...sure, some of the causes of inflation seem almost beyond government control. European refiners have had to swallow a 17% rise in the cost of Mid dle Eastern and North African oil in the past six months, and some textile mills are paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...