Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayflower), sleeping fitfully, crammed in their cubbyhole quarters, hoisting and furling the stubborn cotton sails with bursting muscle and grim stubbornness...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...
...fact-memory exam has only one justification--the assumption that tests are only to show how much has been learned, and need not be learning experiences themselves. This slothful attitude defends the exam which allows only one answer to one question (like "What was the center of cotton production in the United States...
...expensive price-support system, said Fleming, has tended to keep cotton' production in the old, uneconomic mule-power farms of the Southeast, while retarding the natural shift of cotton growing to the low-cost, highly productive tractorized flatland farms of the South and of the irrigated Southwest and West. This keeps cotton prices so high that they provide an umbrella for foreign growers and a powerful incentive for consumers to shift to synthetic fibers. To cure the situation, Fleming advocated gradual reductions in U.S. cotton price-support levels, gradual removal of U.S. acreage controls, and gradual lifting...
Artificial Market. If this is done for the next two or three years, Fleming said, American cotton growers will be able to "feel their way" back into world competition. Making the outlook most encouraging, he said, are two facts. One is the continuing expansion of industry in the old Cotton Belt, which is absorbing farmers freed from the hardscrabble, impoverished existence of old-style farming. The other is the competitive advantage of better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate...