Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lonely dry-land plains of Foard County in north Texas, Jackie Walker, 46, raised wheat and cotton on 1,300 acres. He lost $60,000 in 1980 and 1981 and, with the prospect of more losses this year, decided to "get out while the getting out was good." Says Walker: "It's heartbreaking to see about ten years' work go down the drain for nothing...
...near record yields, making 1981 probably the most productive year in U.S. farm history. Unfortunately, all that abundance knocked the bottom out of prices. Corn, the nation's biggest cash crop, dropped from $3.60 per bu. in the Chicago market to $2.60 by year's end. Cotton sometimes sold as low as 350 per Ib.-but it was costing farmers 600 per Ib. to produce...
...biting Texas panhandle wind flung dirt into their weather-creased faces, some 50 solemn cotton farmers met near the town of Tulia (pop. 5,033) last week for a ritual as sorrowful as a wake. They were there to cast reluctant bids on the well-worn tools and machinery with which Dan Altman, 65, and his son Danny, 34, had scratched out an increasingly difficult living in a way they loved: farming 1,440 acres of irrigated land. The buyers were ambivalent. They were seeking bargains, but they hated to see the Altmansget hurt. And each feared that...
...rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong start. The room is coolly lit by a couple of sloping lamps Armani originally designed to show off one of his collections, and the most insistent color comes from a green tree by a narrow...
...spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous: in her first collections, she used curved shoulder pads while removing the conventional shoulder seam so that a jacket seemed to melt...