Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three courses have precedents. A long fall in farm prices is painfully associated with political disaster and nationwide depression. The Government restricted production during the early New Deal, when Henry Wallace's farm policy called for killing pigs and plowing under every third row of cotton. The Democrats later switched from a policy of scarcity to one of abundance-and Government buying of surpluses. Charles Brannan, Truman's Secretary of Agriculture, said: "I would never lose a wink of sleep if my policies led me to overproduction of some crops." Brannan had the happy experience of operating largely...
...grim fight to hang on, if possible, until long-term improvements begin to pay off. Israel's scant monthly food ration -four ounces of meat, two pounds of potatoes, a pound of frozen cod-makes oldtime British austerity seem almost pleasurable. Unrationed goods are priced skyhigh: $20 for cotton overalls, $8 for a pair of sandals, a month-and-a-half's wages for a radio...
...Judas figure varies throughout the Black Republic, according to local artistry and whimsy. In Colonie des Vacances. a prosperous village of whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
Independent physicists Norman J. Holter and W. R. Glasscock of Helena, Mont., reported Arnold, collected snow or rainwater and filtered it through cotton. The idea was to locate large deposits of uranium ore by means of the radioactive gases that they give off. Some of the gases turn into solid, radioactive elements, which are carried down by rain...
...When cotton, contaminated with natural radioactivity, is tested over a series of days, its activity diminishes according to a definite rule that depends on the "decay rate" of the elements involved. The curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions in 1951 and early 1952, Holter & Glasscock collected samples that gave far from normal curves. Study showed that they were the decay curves of very complex mixtures of radioactive substances. The fission products remaining after an atomic explosion fit this description exactly...