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...machinery abroad. In the past few months Peking's trade offensive in Southeast Asia-which seriously worried the Japanese-has begun to falter badly. Fortnight ago Mao's government, despite its need for foreign exchange, canceled a contract to supply British firms with several thousand tons of cotton and cotton waste, and this breach of contract will jeopardize future negotiations...
...than any other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas' agricultural (cattle, corn, cotton) Fourth...
Philip H. Theopold '25, partner in Minot DeBlois and Maddison, a Boston real estate firm; Fredrick M. Eaton '27, partner in Shearman, Sterling and Wright, New York law firm; John E. Lawrence '31, partner in the Boston cotton firm James Lawrence and Co.; and Albert L. Nickerson '33, president of Socony Mobil Oil Co. have also been nominated...
...their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing a cotton blouse under the wool sweater usually solves the problem...
DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk...