Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. "If you'll pick the leftover cotton in that patch," he was told, "I'll give you a year's subscription to the Progressive Farmer." It did not seem much of an offer to a spirited, twelve-year-old North Carolina farm boy. The Progressive Farmer was a struggling, eight-page weekly with only about 5,000 readers. But it changed Poe's life. He got the subscription, and became so interested in the Farmer that...
...convention passed the resolution and re-elected Kline. Farm Bureau leaders thought it was a notable show of unity. Said one: "It's hard enough for a corn man and a wheat man to get along, not to mention the difference of, say, a hog man and a cotton...
...more on the cotton man's attitude, see BUSINESS...
Looking at their heavy surplus four months ago, U.S. wheat farmers voted to let the government set strict quotas on their 1954 crop (TIME, Aug. 24). Last week it was the cotton farmer's turn to vote on acceptance of quotas and 90% parity, or reject them and get only a 50% parity price prop. The result: a record 94% vote for quotas and price props, well over the two-thirds needed...
Already there are 2,208 factories employing more than 20 men each, and another 100,000 workers are estimated to be employed in thousands of tiny factories in incredibly cramped lofts and lean-tos in back alleys. Since 1948 alone, 13 cotton-spinning mills with 209,000 spindles have been established, and 43,000 more spindles will be added this winter. Other factories, which pay workers as little as 50? a day, make everything from floridly painted aluminum spittoons for African natives to ivory chessmen and bamboo furniture for American tourists. More than 400 companies with 80 million Hong Kong...