Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more support and/or quota restrictions on production. Because of falling prices and the demands of dairy farmers, Benson continued dairy price supports at 90% of parity. As a result of the drought in the Southwest, he moved in to hold up the cattle market. To prevent a glut in cotton, he will almost certainly have to set acreage and marketing controls on the 1954 crop...
Called to the bedside at the urgent request of his old friend President Getulio Vargas, Dr. Aranha prescribed a harsh remedy for the high-living patient: "We must live under a regime of real austerity [and] do without luxuries. We have plenty of cotton-so let us dress in cotton like Hindus. It is time to start living within our means. We must work, we must pay what we owe-and we will...
...even if he had to dip into Brazil's gold reserves. When he said he would not devalue the currency now, the cruzeiro free-rate firmed up from 52 to 45 to the dollar. In a move to trim ship, he decided to unload Brazil's overpriced cotton stocks on the world market, though it might mean taking a $27 million loss on the treasury books. It was a tough line, but it won support at home and abroad. President Getulio Vargas called in his old-time lieutenant for advice on all sorts of matters. And Washington, greatly...
...cottonseed oil, has captured most of the market for margarine, salad dressings and shortening. While lower cottonseed prices might slow down soybean sales, the Agriculture Department hopes that demand for both will pick up. Some bullish factors: 1) the prospect of marketing quotas on the 1954 cotton crop...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...