Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, for pure comfort, the bathing suit and a broad expanse of ocean will never be superceded. For a more practical substitute, bermuda shorts--for male or female--will always do. They come in cool materials like denim or cotton khaki...
...most part, warm-weather attire remains a pretty stable affair. Cool, classic, and casual, the raw materials are cotton and acetate. Seersucker and cord suits, light-colored dresses made of cotton, and Bermuda shorts are among the Spring stand...
Born in a dugout home on a Texas tenant farm, Robert Lee (Bob) Thornton chopped brush, plowed with mules, slept in piles of cotton hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke, started a "jitney loan" business which grew into the Mercantile National Bank. He grew rich and he grew old, but he refused to relax. ("You can't do a damned thing in a rocking chair-lots of action but no progress!") He lived...
...exports is less than half the prewar level. Textiles, which make up nearly half of the Japanese exports, are in the doldrums. The textile industry was one of the first to be revived after the war, and by 1951, Japan was the world's largest exporter of cotton goods. But the worldwide textile recession diminished Japan's markets. There were import cuts by Australia, South Africa, Singapore and Britain. Many Asiatic countries, such as Pakistan, which once bought from Japan, have built up industries of their...
Many experts think that perishable commodities such as butter and potatoes should have no price supports at all. For nonperishables, such as corn, cotton, and wheat, the best solution may be a system of flexible price supports, which would allow at least a partial functioning of the law of supply & demand. Flexible supports would mean that when a surplus mounted, the U.S. could reduce its support prices, thus discourage overproduction of the next crop...