Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farming districts. Deep wells supported a slowly growing population, clustered along well-traveled desert highways in a few centers-Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Barstow. In the mountains, miners hammered away at sun-baked mineral vaults, and on the sandy desert floor men learned to irrigate and raise truck crops, cotton, dates and citrus trees...
...Eisenhower had been busily arranging the interior, putting up pictures, sorting out souvenirs, and shopping. Hatless and wearing a cotton print, she went to Sears. Roebuck in Chambersburg, Pa. to buy one kitchen item: a hand eggbeater...
First out was Otho G. Bell, 24, of Hillsboro, Miss., a round-faced little man in a poorly cut fawn-grey cotton suit; next came William A. Cowart, 22, of Dalton, Ga., a hulking figure with dirty white pants shoved into high Korean cavalry boots; last was Lewis W. Griggs, 22, of Neches, Texas, a tall, thin, preoccupied youth, carrying the only luggage of the three: a bundled-up raincoat and a pair of brown shoes dangling by their laces...
Once farmers pooled their money to buy a tractor or a combine, shared it from farm to farm. Now every farmer wants his own. Any new development catches on with prairiefire speed. In California's Kern County, for example, cotton now accounts for 40% of the county's $224 million annual income from agriculture, largely because of mechanical cotton pickers. Says one equipment dealer: "In 1946, we sold six cotton pickers For the next eight years we never sold less than 100 machines, and in 1951 our sales-went over 200." Today, there are about 1,500 cotton...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...