Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American genius-its capacity for constructing forms strong and shrewd enough to withstand the tensions of change. From the nation's start, its three chief resources have been its fabulous mines of law, politics and social (including economic) organization. The abundance of material things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches, not the take from a geographic roulette wheel or the hoard of materialist greed. Today's drive of the U.S. Negro toward equality is as strong as any social tide in Asia or Africa or Europe...
...Cortines and his eager, able Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz (TIME. Aug. 1) have emphasized with increased loans, irrigation appropriations and fertilizer plants, the President was able to report a 20% increase in production and alltime record yields of Mexico's basic export crops, coffee and cotton...
This week, at the age of 100, Michigan State University at East Lansing was still operating at full tide. As part of its year-long birthday celebration, it assembled a giant farm-machinery exposition of some $30 million worth of equipment. There were corn pickers and cotton pickers, weeders, tractors, and combines of every type. By week's end, 250,000 people, including the touring Soviet farmers, are expected to have seen the show. But more impressive than the machinery on display was Michigan State itself...
...above last year's and to equal, if not exceed, the record yield of 1948. Bumper production is anticipated in corn (17% over 1954, and the second-largest crop in history), oats (8% higher than 1954), sorghum grains (up 30%), hay (up 5%), soybeans (up 23%), cotton (30% above the average yield), wheat (5% above the latest forecast) and peanuts (50% above last year...
...After the new crop forecasts were announced last week, soybean futures fell about 6?, corn 3?, wheat went down 3? and cotton dropped 32 points...