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Word: cottonland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were a large family. We couldn't make the family smaller, so we made the business larger." The brothers put up a cotton mill, soon found that to be successful ginners they would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Big Five | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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