Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution. Tooey Spaatz, as the first Chief of Staff, U.S.A.F., and his successor, Hoyt Vandenberg, still had their hands full. One hand tried to fashion an atom-jet striking force to stop the threat of Communism; the other fought off the Army and Navy, which did not cotton to the Air Force's demands for money-much more money than the one-third of defense funds that it was getting...
...Wafd Minister of Agriculture personally speculated in the cotton market and falsified crop reports to make a ?26,000 profit...
...Serag el Din changed the laws to benefit the cotton speculators, a move that cost the government ?17 million in two years...
...Farouk accepted a ?75,000 bribe from the cotton speculators to plead their case before the Cabinet...
Last week, after months of ignominious pleading and haggling with Peking (which has still not recognized Britain), Jardine's took inconspicuous ads in the Hong Kong papers stating that it has "ceased to act as general managers" of Ewo (Happy Harmony) Cotton Mills. Jardine's hoped also to withdraw from Ewo Breweries and from the big Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Shareholders would get little for the privilege of withdrawing their managers, except cessation of paying tribute for them. So ended trading in China of the firm with the biggest British investment east of Suez...