Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been passing out caviar and cognac, lunching Western newsmen, offering to provide Soviet orchestras for their hosts' enlightenment. Smart-suited Soviet buyers are shopping everywhere, touting a bottomless ^market (of 660 million Russians and Chinese) for the surplus commodities of Western farms and factories. The Communists want cotton, wool, fats, steel and rubber-and the payment they offer is attractive: gold, timber, even strategic materials...
...Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber and cattle provide work for more than 20,000 Nicaraguans. To get his produce to world markets, he has organized a private merchant marine, the Mamenic Line...
Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
...Assault. Warmly bundled in many layered, lightweight clothes and wearing three pairs of gloves (silk, wool or down, and windbreaking cotton), the team started plodding up the mountain. They were accompanied by Sherpa porters, carrying tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, food, cooking equipment and fuel. Progressively higher camps were established as the men slowly accustomed themselves to high altitudes, became used to oxygen masks, and were molded into the unity of a smoothly meshed team...
Davis has taken part in many international conferences on world commodity problems. Last year he was Chief of the U.S. delegation to the Rome Conference of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. He also headed the U.S. delegation to the International Cotton Conference in Washington