Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil, in exchange for coffee, cotton, cacao and wool sent to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, got only 42% of the machinery and other goods promised by the Reds, wound up 1954 holding a bagful of credits...
...cause of Lincoln-Mercury, Ed has addressed steelworkers before their blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, landed on Boston Common in a helicopter, gone down 20 ft. in a Navy diving suit and sailed up the Mississippi in a barge before 75,000 spectators at the opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days after such a complaint, the local district manager is on the phone or the car owner's doorstep...
...futures markets, which soared on the news of the President's heart attack, in expectation of a possible return to Democratic high-price supports, dropped last week in the sharpest break since May 1954. One big reason was an unofficial estimate by the Journal of Commerce that the cotton crop would exceed Government figures; this touched off a reaction which sent cotton plunging $10 a bale for the maximum permissible drop, followed by eggs, corn, soybeans and wheat...
Smith is used to living with excitement. A native of New Orleans, he broke into photo-journalism in 1936 with a dynamite-loaded story, "The Unions Enter the Cotton Fields." Today he lives on a farm in Connecticut...
Then came the startling announcement : "We received an offer from Czechoslovakia showing readiness to supply us with as many weapons as our army required, and on a purely commercial basis in return for Egyptian products such as cotton and rice, which I accepted with thanks. An agreement was concluded to this effect between Egypt and Czechoslovakia last week...