Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bountiful nation. Under a harvest moon that filled the August sky, the wheat and corn and cotton were ripening, and the U.S. prepared to bring in the biggest crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
...whole legislative course for a long while to come. Although they fight each other on civil rights issues, Northern liberals and Southern conservatives have long scratched each others' backs in other areas: Northerners, for example, have supported such Southern-backed bills as price supports for peanuts, tobacco and cotton, while Southerners have helped put across Northern-sponsored programs for slum clearance, public works and other welfare legislation...
...hundred strong, the mob marched westward with its massed flags along Little Rock's 14th Street toward Central High School, shouting, cursing, and singing to the tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...COTTON CROP will reach 14.8 million bales, largest since 1953, because farmers boosted production 29% over last year under new Government program that allows bigger planting, lower support prices. Current surplus: 8,800,000 bales, mostly owned by Government...
Down to $29.30. In his search, white-maned, gruff Harry Mosser, 65, has the advantage of knowing South Texas as if it were his own backyard. He was born in San Antonio, brought up in Alice, Duval County, worked in his father's bank in Alice, and cotton farmed after leaving the University of Texas. He began buying up oil leases in the '20s all over South