Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brother Nelson in New York, who, like Winthrop, has a private fortune of more than $200 million) will have planted his high-heeled cowboy boots in every Arkansas county during the course of 14 "nonpolitical" regional tours. Said a state tax official in Pocahontas, a town of old cotton and new industry: "This is the first time that anybody, even a tax commissioner, has visited with us." With ease, Rockefeller was redeeming last fall's campaign slogan: "When Win Wins, He'll Be Back...
...that prior to the advent of the growing season he waives any right to price supports for that year." Had Mr. Greer's request been heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus. The Government allows us to plant cotton on approximately one out of every ten acres. We would prefer that the program of Government payments be terminated and have long been on record to that effect. But if this be done, the Government...
...such local characters as Charlie Smith and Sylvester Magee, another former slave from Hattiesburg, Miss., who claimed to be celebrating his 126th birthday last May 29. Magee's eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed, but a family Bible that recorded his birth date happened to be lost when his cabin burned down four years ago. That doesn't bother Magee. After all, Lyndon...
...Nasser $1,500,000 a week; the closing of the Suez Canal subtracts another $5,000,000. Even if the canal reopens, Cairo's ban on U.S., British and West German shipping will still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick...
...harvesters and the programs under which they received payments as listed by the Agriculture Department: Griffen, Inc., Huron, Calif., $2,397,073 (cotton); South Lake Farms, Five Points, Calif., $1,468,696 (cotton and feed grains); J. G. Boswell Co., Corcoran, Calif., $2,807,633 (cotton); Salyer Land Co., also of Corcoran, $1,014,860 (cotton and feed grains); and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Honolulu, $1,236,355 (sugar). Eleven other farms collected more than $500,000 each; 258 received between...