Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worthless Calf. The Texas wheat crop this year is expected to be about one-third of normal, the cotton crop one-half. Hardest hit of all are the cattle ranchers. Their ranges are burned up, their ponds and wells are going dry; most of the cattle they have left stand forlornly in the baking fields, ribs pressing against their skin...
...area have felt little effect so far, but many a smaller city and town has. Hamlin (pop. 1.800). in west Texas, has been out of water for more than a year, is importing it in railroad tank cars at a cost of 60? for 100 gallons. Both wheat and cotton crops in the area have been failing for three years, the town is surrounded by abandoned farms, and many houses and business buildings stand vacant...
Last fortnight a group of southwesterners, including a delegation of Texans led by Republican National Committeeman Jack Porter, went up to Washington to tell their story and to ask for help. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson flew to Texas to make a speech at a cotton convention in Lubbock, and turned his trip into a drought-inspection tour...
Their mills, which were turning out only 190 million yards of denim eight years ago, this year will produce more than 450 million yards. For the ailing U.S. cotton industry, long ago threatened by rayon and more recently by the newer synthetics like dacron and orlon, the coronation of Cinderella denim proved that where there is a way to make homely cottons attractive there is a will...
...textile mill town. Its Yankees have long since been joined by thousands of Irish, Portuguese, Greeks and Italians. It is old, shabby, resigned, and tolerant of both vulgarity and venality in politics as long as they are kept within reasonable bounds. When a glib, promise-'em-everything, ex-cotton salesman named Edward Peirce (pronounced purse) was elected mayor 20 months ago, New Bedford was undisturbed-even though it was fairly obvious that he expected to "get his take" from the local gamblers...