Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still more does U.S. prosperity depend on export markets. Four million Americans work directly for overseas customers. In 1952 U.S. foreign sales of earth-grading machinery were equal to 30% of production; tractors, 23%; textile machinery, 22%; typewriters, 19%; trucks and buses, 16%; refrigerators, 13%; cotton textiles, 9%. U.S. farmers exported the produce of 40 million acres of land-between one-quarter and one-half of all their cotton, tobacco, corn and wheat. About 30% of all U.S. farm marketings are dependent on foreign buyers, and in 1951 farm-export income, divided evenly among U.S. farmers, equaled...
...Named for Monroe D. Anderson, wealthy Houston cotton broker, who died in 1939 and left his fortune for "good works...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...
Cool Answers. The Premier's official mission-aid for Japan-ended on an equally uncertain note. On the eve of Yoshida's arrival the State Department announced that the U.S. was prepared to sell Japan $100 million in surplus wheat and cotton...
...crude rafts, sampans and Western warships, with all that was left of their previous lives wrapped in cotton bundles, the refugees headed south - aware that their very act of leaving might be their death warrant if Uncle Ho ever caught up with them. Last week several thousand refugees, fleeing from the Communist interior, got trapped on a sandbar off the coast of North Viet Nam. Before them lay the sea. Behind them lay the Communist land of compulsory joy. In frail craft, the braver, stronger ones made it out to the three-mile limit, where a French aircraft carrier waited...