Word: cottons
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...into a football helmet: Star Split-End Morell George of Detroit's Central High School switched to braids after continuous combing bouts with his crushed Afro. Other blacks who still favor the 'fro find that braids are better than any combs, conditioners or sprays in creating the cotton-candy shape. After a week of being tightly bound, the braids, when freed, fluff out into an attractively puffy bush...
...Year approaches with the climactic absurdity of the Rose - Orange - Gator - Sugar - Cotton - Liberty - Fiesta bowl as millions will sit mesmerized in front of the tube watching the perennials (USC, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama....) meet. It is big-time football, the big schedule and the big loot, with a few exceptions (like coach Joe Paterno of Penn State) the guy on the field, the ice or the hardcourt gets lost. Big-time football, big-time money, who cares that Oklahoma is on probation and won't play post-season this year because of recruiting violations or that...
European trade with the Americas was largely due to increasing demand for certain goods--especially sugar, which had been introduced into the New World at about 1650. As a result of Europe's rapidly growing demand for sugar and later cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England...
...Guatemala, but own only 14 per cent of the land. A subsistence farmer, who cannot grow enough corn for his family on his one or two acres of land or sell it for a reasonable price in the fluctuating market, must migrate to work on the coffee or cotton plantations--called fincas--at harvest time...
...shortages become more severe, talk of export restrictions has begun to crop up. Georgia Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge is demanding controls on all commodity exports because of the cotton crisis. The U.S. learned to its sorrow earlier this year that controls on individual commodities lead to problems in other areas. When the Government slapped controls on exports of soybeans in June, foreign buyers simply put their money instead into related U.S. commodities, like peanuts and alfalfa, whose exports then had to be controlled too. A blanket program on all exports would be patently unacceptable to the Administration, which believes that...