Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur weather station-not forgetting a telescope to study astronomy ("That will get them a long way out of West Dallas"). He also wants to keep his school open all through the summer. "That way," says he, "a lot of these youngsters whose folks take them off cotton picking in the fall can get their full nine months...
Last week some of the 225 delegates went out to the San Joaquin Valley, the heart of California's cotton country, to see how the agricultural miracle had been wrought. In what had once been a sandy wasteland, they saw miles of irrigated cotton land. They winced at the high costs of irrigating ($4 to $25 an acre for water) and harvesting the crop (see cut), and could hardly believe the big yields: 572 Ibs. an acre, v. the U.S. average...
Much of the crop had been grown, not for a booming market, but to cash in on the Government-supported price. At 32½? a lb., the support price was about 300% over prewar levels. Last year, in spite of falling demand, U.S. cotton growers had turned out the biggest crop (14.9 million bales) in eleven years, giving the U.S. a carryover of some 6,000,000 bales...
Nevertheless, delegates wondered how long the gravy train could keep running. They discussed ways of boosting their markets by 1) removing the legal restraints from margarine (which uses cottonseed oil); 2) pushing the sale of cotton bags for feed by using prints convertible to dresses (TIME, Jan. 31); and 3) getting ECA to step up 1949 exports (which would otherwise be the lowest since the Civil War). The cotton growers, who use about 10% of all fertilizer, also looked at the big use of paper bags by that industry, estimated that judicious pressure there alone could step up cotton consumption...
...India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...