Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...targets since 1973 have replaced the old-style support prices, under which the Government actually bought up the commodities and stockpiled them. The new target price would be increased as follows: on wheat from $2.05 per bu. to $3.10; on corn from $1.38 per bu. to $2.25; on cotton from...
...Boost the amount of the loans that the Government can make to wheat, corn and cotton raisers who hold their crops off the market while waiting for higher prices and extend the term of the loans to 18 months from the present twelve...
...southerners home...is a genuine aching and evidently almost constant need to re-experience themselves it is this need that I have noted only rarely in Texas. Texas is very new--still very new--and it has always been urgent, intemperate, and barbaric...The cattle kingdom was not the cotton kingdom: it had no refinement, no architecture, and no leisured class--certainly no leisured ladies. Even now, few Texans slow down to look at their energy is far more phone to the masochism of overwork than to the sweeter masochism of nostalgia, a preference that has weakened them literarily while...
Hans Steinke conducted their experiments with cotton-topped marmosets, South American monkeys that are known to develop lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, when they are exposed to two viruses of the herpes family. The researchers reported in the British journal Nature that they inoculated 42 of the animals with a vaccine made from killed herpes saimiri viruses, then exposed some of the immunized animals and controls to live, cell-free viruses. Most of the non-immunized monkeys developed malignant lymphoma and died of the disease. The immunized animals remained healthy...
...Senate if Jackson resigned his seat to campaign for the presidency. Not now: the revolution in the House against the seniority system has handed him, at age 45, an opportunity to block proposed rises in the cost of food stamps and to urge increased production of milk and cotton while keeping a floor under farm prices...