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...most certainly is. In Texas the U.S. has a state which produces four times as much cotton lint as any place else around (4,308,000 bales in 1958); the Ohio River is spanned by the largest Simple Truss Bridge anywhere--the Metropolis Bridge has a main span of some 720 feet! Or take a camera to Oklahoma on September 16, for the colorful Indian ceremony known jocularly as "Cherokee Strip...
...multitude of books and some favorite furnishings saved from the big Westchester home that she sold. Decorator William Pahlmann (see below) built storage walls wherever he could find the space, gave the study-guest-room the famous Pahlmann tent treatment: the walls are covered with striped mustard-and-red cotton, which winds around to the window wall and folds into drapery, while the ceiling is covered with a light blue fabric and a scalloped border...
...that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese tea paper, has a bedspread made from a Greek rug, and a headboard upholstered in mustard-colored leather...
Members of the Committee submitting the majority report: Harvey Brooks (chairman), J. Harry Cotton, Benjamin G. Ferris Jr., George W. Gibson, Robert H. Marden, Cecil A. Roberts, Thomas C. Schelling, James H. Shaw, Leslie Silverman, Edward K. True, Shields Warren, and Frank H. Westheimer...
with low-priced cottons, has exported almost as much in the past five months as it did in the previous twelve. To plug the flow, the U.S. invoked a gentleman's agreement-approved by 16 countries in Geneva last summer-which says that a country whose textile markets are disrupted by another country's exports can sharply restrict them. With that in hand, the Administration last week shut off imports of eight kinds of Hong Kong cotton textiles, including sweaters, shirts, raincoats and ginghams...