Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flash was short; the small, cotton-candy cloud could hardly qualify as a bona fide mushroom, and the rumble was barely audible 30 miles away. But there was a watchmaker's genius in every dimension of the tiny (less than one kilo-ton), sophisticated atomic bomb, exploded from a balloon 500 ft. over the Nevada desert last week, and it demonstrated how far the U.S. has progressed in small-weapons development...
...higher than ever before, despite federal crop controls that cut back planting to smallest acreage in 40 years. Good weather and better growing methods will raise per-acre yield of corn from last year's 46.8 to 49 bu.; of wheat, from 21.7 to 27 bu.; of cotton, from...
...second largest (13,600,000, against New York's 15,800,000) and fastest growing (at a breakneck clip of 500,000 a year since 1950) state in the Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers and pensioners and professors, California provides a political spectrum that can cast its colors nationwide...
...burst to five-star status in World War II. Milton moved steadily up the government promotion list, became one of the most highly regarded officials in Washington. Under Henry Wallace, he restored order to a chaotic land-use program that at one point urged some farmers to reduce their cotton acreage, urged others to increase it. At the start of World War II, he was placed in charge of relocating West Coast Japanese in the U.S. interior, carried out a heartbreaking job with personal dignity. At Franklin Roosevelt's request, he undertook a monumental study of all Government information...
Cards of Identity. Author Cheever's plots carry his punch in the way that cotton carries chloroform. His stories are saturated with the sights and sounds of suburban life. His characters show the identity cards of the hard-pressed middle class: unpaid bills, buttonless shirts, little scraps of paper that read, "oleomargarine, frozen spinach, Kleenex, dog biscuit . . ." They believe they are "outside the realm of God's infinite mercy," and yet their prayer is heartfelt: "Preserve me from word games and adulterers, from basset hounds and swimming pools and frozen canapes and Bloody Marys...