Word: cottons
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...author married Selznick in 1930 and assures us that until then, David's father put him to bed nightly. The Mayers and Selznicks were among Hollywood's pilgrim families, and to judge from Irene Selznick's recollection, her father was its Cotton Mather. He preached the doctrine of sound business practices, quality without ostentation and respectability. The best parts of A Private View deal with the '20s, when moguls were old-fashioned family men who made sure that their values got into their pictures. Selznick gracefully catches the small-town quality about the Hollywood...
SOMEWHERE BACK in the dark recesses of Americana, in the tradition of Cotton Mather, Huckleberry Finn and Norman Rockwell, a myth sprang up about Americans. Public figures are spreading it aggressively in these days of nuclear jitters. It is the idea that in times of crisis we as people stick together, stick it out and ultimately come...
...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...
...enormous cutback in planting this year under the new federal payment-in-kind (PIK) program may be a bonanza for some farmers. In return for not planting corn, wheat, rice and cotton crops, farmers will receive up to 95% of their normal yield of these commodities free from Uncle Sam's warehouses. This is an economical way for the Government to reduce the cost of storing surpluses, and it should help the farmer by removing the glut that has caused prices to plunge. But where does it leave the marketers of such items as fertilizer and farm equipment, already...
...program will cause the greatest idling of American farmland ever. Up to 82.3 million acres, or 20% of all U.S. cropland, will be left unsowed. With some $5 billion less being spent to produce crops this year, as many as 50,000 workers in the farm sector, from cotton ginners to wheat cutters, could be hurt, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture impact statement...