Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guided tour of one such apartment complex, the Feng Cheng workers' residential area, I was introduced to Cheng Wei-ping, a bus dispatcher. Cheng earns 79 yuan a month ($39.50), and his wife earns an identical amount in a nearby cotton mill. Their rent, however, is under 10 yuan per month for bedroom, living room, kitchen alcove and toilet-all unheated. Twenty-five years ago, such accommodations were beyond the reach of anyone but white-collar or professional workers...
...army to dirty work done by subordinates without his knowledge. Since 80% of the country's 10 million people live as subsistence farmers more or less outside the cash economy, the threat of a commercial collapse in the capital does not worry Amin inordinately. The coffee and cotton crops are earning foreign exchange, and Uganda's hard-currency position seems to be strong enough to permit Amin to order a $4,500,000 Grumman jet for his private...
...should grow because of a major increase in foreign demand, brought on by new prosperity and new political realities. If Soviet leaders are serious about their promise to produce more meat, the Russians will almost certainly become long-term grain customers for American farmers. China has started buying U.S. cotton for the first time in 20 years. The Europeans, and especially the Japanese, show signs of enjoying a large part of their higher paychecks on their plates, making them promising customers as well...
...threw it back out kaleidoscopically, and seemed to be imitating the mystery-of-the-universe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A troupe of ballet dancers suddenly materialized to writhe to Pierre Henry's electronic sound track, which was often so loud that the management had to provide cotton balls for the ears of the audience...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...