Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Years. Son of a Texas cotton and dairy farmer, Bob Anderson worked his way through two years of college, then taught high school in home-town Burleson (pop. 800), and coached an unbeaten football team on the side, until he could save enough to start himself through the University of Texas law school. During his final year of law school, Democrat Anderson campaigned for the state legislature on weekends, was elected the day he graduated (with the best scholastic record in the school's history...
Much of the opposition to the soil bank is based on the charge that it is highly partial in whom it helps. Apart from the relatively unimportant conservation-reserve phase, the benefits are confined to producers of the five price-supported crops-wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. Such crops account for only 23% of total farm income-leaving the producers of the other 77% totally outside the benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus...
...South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, plus a dozen Ikemen: Vermont's George Aiken, Colorado's Gordon Allott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Kansas' Frank Carlson, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Alexander Smith, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Utah's Arthur Watkins and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...itself listed $211 million worth of agricultural research projects now under way that could be pushed through immediately. Among them: i) development of powdered whole milk that tastes like fresh 2) a method to make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host of new drugs, such as antibiotics from tomato leaves and hormones from...
Hollywood's answer to Harriet Stowe has an antebellum South where slaves sing in King Cotton's fields, and dance joyfully to the amusement of the kindly massas from the Big House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall...