Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICA WILL CHANGE HER POLICY, said an eight-column head in Cairo's official newspaper Al Gumhuria. Other Egyptian papers burbled in delight over "indications" of a Washington turnabout. The U.S., it was reported, had resumed its Egyptian aid program, was again buying Egyptian cotton, had released $3,000,000 of Egypt's frozen funds, had agreed to a special shipment of Salk polio vaccine-was, in short, about to go all out for Nasser. "It's a great victory for Gamal," said a Cairo news vendor...
Actually, the U.S. was doing nothing about Egypt that it had not been doing all along. The touted resumption of American aid was merely the continued honoring of commitments made before Suez. CARE negotiations remained stalled, as they had been. The U.S. has never stopped buying Egyptian cotton, or releasing in installments the frozen funds (originally about $40 million), chiefly for the expenses of the Egyptian embassy in Washington and the Egyptian U.N. delegation. What was significant in the sudden rush of wishful Egyptian thinking was that Gamal Abdel Nasser, though he had just accepted a $175 million Soviet loan...
...Anne David manufacturers have a model in black or natural water-repellent fabric with wool knitted cuffs, collar, and button panel. The most intriging feature of this particular carcoat, though, is the cotton quilted lining...
...laundry-bill conscious lass, Stephens has put out a dacron and cotton trenchcoat that is guaranteed washable. It is also wrinkle-resistant. White trench-coats are being shown, too--impractical but awfully attractive...
...only the trenchcoat model, but a variety of raincoats of Egyptian imported (via Britain) cotton are available to the well-dressed man this year. (Macintosh is the brand name to remember). This is of particular interest to the warm-blooded college man who tends to wear his raincoat for a year-round coat...