Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news came out of a 236-page report from the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization. The non-Communist world, reported FAO, is now producing 25% more food than it did in 1946-47. The non-Communist world is producing about 20% more rice, milk and cotton than it did before the war; it is catching 20% more fish; it is producing about 30% more wheat, meat and fats; about 59% more sugar. It has 2% more food available per capita, than it had before the war. FAO warned that there were many regions, e.g., back-country Latin America...
...resignation of Secretary Benson. Confident that his course had been the right one, Benson intended to reduce price supports by 3% to 13% on five basic crops next year (wheat supports will come down from 82.5% of parity to 76%) and to cut back the acreage of wheat and cotton...
...plans to ease the readjustment. One plan was a "lease-land" program, whereby the Government would pay farmers about $500 million a year rental to take about 40 million surplus acres out of production to "conserve fertility." Benson promised that there would be "no radical measures, like plowing under cotton and the slaughter of little pigs...
...clients: the Negroes, and especially the Negroes of the South and the border states, who, facing threats of firing, or beating or even death, continue to sign the legal petitions and complaints that must be the starting point of Marshall's cases from the slum and the cotton field to the high and technical levels of the Supreme Court. Of these local N.A.A.C.P. leaders in the South, Marshall says: "There isn't a threat known to men that they do not receive. They're never out from under pressure. I don't think I could take...
Brazil has about 50 Meteors, obtained in 1952 by barter for 297,000 tons of cotton...