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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rdenas' successor, Manuel Avila Camacho, got Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: A SHORT HISTORY OF MEXICO | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Force Academy (9-0-1)-proved an infant prodigy in its fourth season of existence, beat faltering Colorado 20-14 and accepted a Jan. 1 date with Texas Christian in the Cotton Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Texas Christian (8-2)-suffered the understandable letdown and lost to Southern Methodist 20-13 after clinching the Southwest Conference title and a place in the Cotton Bowl with a competent but starless team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

These woes are aggravated by the Government's absurd cotton-subsidy program, under which the Government dumps cotton abroad at 20% below U.S. prices. Foreign textilemen then make U.S. cotton into cut-price cloth that has won away U.S. markets both abroad and at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Recovery in View | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...boycott of a struck firm's products is a familiar union tactic. Last week 250 striking workers at Q-Tips Inc., a manufacturer of cotton-tipped swabs in Long Island City, N.Y., tried a neat switch-about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Don't Boycott--Buy! | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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