Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today there are 60 residents at Koinonia-45 whites and 15 Negroes. The 440 acres have grown to 1,103, with cash crops of peanuts, corn, cotton, cattle, hogs, goats and poultry...
...spring the county health department obtained an injunction against the farm's racially mixed camp for children. A construction company refused to dredge the creek for swimming when they learned there was to be interracial bathing there; a crop-dusting firm refused to dust the farm's cotton. Then came dynamite-three sticks of it-which blew up the farm's roadside produce stand. After that there was an avalanche of insurance policy cancellations...
...COTTON SURPLUS...
...Hope for a Permanent Cure OLD King Cotton has been sick for years, and getting progressively worse. But now, for the first time since the Korean war, there are hopeful signs of recovery. In the 1956-57 marketing year the staggering cotton surplus, currently at an all time record 14.1 million bales, is expected to level off or perhaps even decline a bit. More important, the Government is trying new medicines on cotton, all aimed at effecting a permanent cure in the years to come...
...COTTON SURPLUS, growing since 1951, will probably level off this year, says Agriculture Department. Despite slightly bigger crops, prospects are that heavier exports (double the 2,200,000 bales in 1955) and steady domestic use (9,200,000 bales) will push total consumption 25% ahead of last year, enough so that 1957 cotton carryover will be slightly less than last year's record 14.1 million bales...