Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confined to a 3% drop in wholesale farm-product prices, which should lead to a welcome decline in some retail prices within the next few weeks-but many economists believe that the downward pressure on food is about spent. Industrial products ranging from iron and steel scrap to lumber, cotton, man-made fibers and animal hides rose an average of 2.3% in April, a figure that almost equals the torrid pace set earlier this year. Overall, the wholesale index in the past three months has risen at a compound annual rate of 13.5%, a sure sign that scorching inflation will...
...Take a hard line ... Anything on that they better watch their damned cotton picking faces. Because boy, if there's one thing in this case as Henry will tell you, since March 21st when I had that conversation with Dean, I have broken my ass to try to get the facts of this case...
...week at the Orson Welles, are completely transporting in a different way. Instead of journeying to some never-never land of commercial spirituality, we flee to a real place at a real time. Les Blank's documentary visits the ancient home of bluesman Mance Lipscomb in the East Texas cotton country, weaving the music and the sharecropping way of life into a whole strain of U.S. history. Admittedly, dignity sits easy on the shoulders of the old and weathered, and the story that predates this picture is a horrible one, but Lipscomb's community transmits here the transcendent vision that...
...deadline approached on Tuesday, Dean Burch, Nixon's newest high-level assistant, carried a copy of St. Clair's proposed response to Capitol Hill. There the Senate's top G.O.P. leaders, including Hugh Scott, Robert Griffin, John Tower, Wallace Bennett, Norris Cotton and William Brock, read it and bluntly told Burch that it was inadequate. "It won't fly," snapped one of these leaders. "It doesn't go far enough," complained Scott. "You've got to get a line in there on your intent to cooperate with the committee." In partial explanation, Burch told...
...made an optimistic statement about the energy crisis. Simon, on television, smilingly warned Ash to "keep his cotton-pickin' hands off energy policy." Next day Ash retorted: "We don't pick cotton at OMB. We run the plantation...