Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refortify battered North Korea-plainly showing that they have no intention of yielding it to a unified all-Korean government at the peace table. Last September Russia granted $250 million towards North Korea's "recovery.?' Last week Red China agreed to send $317 million in "coal, cloth, cotton, grain, building materials, communications equipment, metal products, machinery, agricultural tools, fishing boats, paper and other daily necessities of the people." Red China also agreed to-cancel North Korea's war debts incurred up to next Jan. 1 (apparently a way of saying that North Koreans must pay occupation costs...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
...down Pi-gnone factory on Florence's outskirts, the oldest industrial plant in the city. Pignone, a dreary and sprawling factory which used to make torpedoes for Mussolini, was taken over after the war by Snia Viscosa, Italy's biggest textile combine, which used it to make cotton-spinning machines for export. But a slump in textile demand and high costs (partly caused by Communist-inspired strikes) brought on a layoff last January of 350 workers, leaving 1,750. Last month Pignone's stockholders decided to halt operations altogether, and the dreaded closing notice was posted...
...Portland, Ore. last week, President Zehntbauer, 69, showed off his 1954 women's line, already on display to catch the winter vacation trade. The suits, in cotton, rayon, wool and nylon, were trimmed with sequins, imitation pearls and rhinestones. They had such names as "Summer Siren" and "Caprice," and were priced from $8.95 to $32.50 (for "Diamond Mine." a rhinestone-studded suit in metallic colors). All would look good on a handsome woman, but would not necessarily make all women handsome. With his new line, President Zehntbauer thinks Jantzen will do even better than in record-breaking 1953) when...
...Harmon Whittington, 54, took over as president of Houston's Anderson, Clayton & Co., Inc., world's largest cotton merchants (1952 sales: $892,733,355), succeeding Lamar Fleming Jr., 61, who moved up to chairman. Whittington, who got into the cotton business because it seemed as if cotton buyers had to work only a few months of the year, started with Anderson, Clayton at 18 as a stenographer, rose to salesman, branched out into foreign operations, and has been executive vice president since 1945. ¶Frederick Russell Kappel, 51, took over as president of Western Electric Co. Inc., American...