Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining officially approved a summer and tropical uniform: "silver-tan" cotton twill Bermuda-length shorts, long socks, short-sleeved shirts, belted bush jackets and pith helmets. The new uniform will not be available in a post exchange until this fall, will not be issued to recruits until next July, and will not be worn throughout the Air Force until 1959. For the time being, no one will be allowed to wear shorts off-base. Explained an Air Force officer, "We have to get used to looking at our knees, and that's going...
...businessmen, the nation's farmers have turned to automation. Typical of the great change are the Bidart brothers, John, 41, and Frank, 49, who started out in 1932 with 300 acres near Bakersfield, Calif., a borrowed tractor and four mules. Now they farm 5,600 acres of prime cotton land by machine. They have a cotton gin, 14 cotton pickers (costing $11,000 apiece), 24 tractors and eight trucks all equipped with two-way radios. Says John Bidart who also owns half-interest in a $7,000 plane used to spray the cotton: We couldn't get along...
...Just as Crazy as Hell." Johnson's Texas bragging hides a long, sound business background. After a hard-knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty...
...fertile valley of French Equatorial Africa's Mayo-Kebbi River the cotton fields lay untended, and the sun beat down upon hundreds of deserted huts. Where some 40,000 Africans had once lived and worked, only a handful were to be seen, and they were mostly blind. Nearly everyone had fled the valley before the terror of the "Nbwa," the fly that blinds...
...achievement for the U.S. foreign economic program," and the delighted Japanese officials in Geneva poured champagne. But Britain, beset by Japan's competition with her depressed Lancashire textile industry, announced that it would not extend GATT's most-favored-nation treatment to Japan. Also outraged : the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, which called the new U.S. tariff agreement with Japan "a staggering blow" to U.S. textile makers...