Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow," complained Mrs. A. S. Vandervoort Jr. "We will just create a bunch of little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council: "We're just drifting back to the fundamentals...
...more than 40 hours of taped singing. Inside the opera house, the red plush boxes were empty, dust covers lined the balustrades. A 62-piece orchestra was spread over the stripped main floor, and a 30-voice chorus was onstage. The principals stood at the music stand in bright cotton prints or sports shirts and slacks. In the control foyer Music Director Richard Mohr and the technicians hunched over the controls...
When Congress last year ordered the Agriculture Department to subsidize cotton exports and thus cut the mounting surplus. Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson hoped to send possibly 5,000,000 bales overseas this year, more than twice 1956 exports. Last week Agriculture officials totaled up the figures and announced that the program had succeeded far beyond Secretary Benson's prediction. At a cost of $442 million in subsidies, the U.S. will have exported 7,500,000 bales by Aug. 1, the highest since 1933. But before anyone could cheer, the Agriculture Department also warned that the export program...
...boost price supports for the current 1957 crop well beyond the 28.15? per Ib. price he set last February. The net effect, as Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse wrote the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a fortnight ago, will be to encourage farmers to produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher surplus and one that will be even more expensive to dispose of abroad. Each additional penny of price supports will cost $25 million more in cotton export subsidies. Said Morse: "With the formulas in the present law, our success in moving surplus...
...Agriculture Department asked Congress to eliminate the escalator clause in the support law before serious harm is done to the "longrun interests of our farm people." But last week influential farm-bloc Congressmen passed the word that there will be "no action this year." On commodity markets, cotton futures jumped $1 to $3.65 a bale in a single clay as cottonmen got set for higher prices and higher supports...