Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were initially so excited by the promise of a steadier dollar that they optimistically bid up share prices with record speed; the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 35 points Wednesday, its largest one-day rise in history. On the commodity markets, prices for future delivery of cattle, soybeans and cotton briefly fell, partly in the expectation that inflation really would slow down. Oddest of all, bond prices rose sharply, and long-term interest rates actually fell. Apparent reason: a dollar recovery and less inflation might bring interest rates down in the long run, however high the Federal Reserve may jack...
...mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...
...Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46--the quiet gentleman from Beverly Farms who wants to be governor of Massachusetts--are not what you would expect. The walls are yellow and peeling--just a little hole in the wall on 14 Beacon Street. One switchboard, six telephones, no hold buttons, no cotton ribbed turtlenecks--just a bunch of kids, sitting around stuffing envelopes. There is one sign on the wall. "Make the King the Ruler of Massachusetts for the next four years, and you'll think Henry the VIII was a nice...
Events abroad, also well beyond Carter's control, had conspired to aggravate inflation. OPEC'S quintupling of oil prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about...
Stratton moves on to a corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...