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From its resolutions committee, the convention got a proposal to reaffirm last year's stand in favor of Ezra Benson's flexible-support program. There was a lively but short-lived flurry of opposition from some Southern delegations, who wanted cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice and peanuts supported at a rigid 90% of parity. The vote was 124-39 for flexibility. Drawled E. H. Agnew, South Carolina cotton farmer who had helped lead the defeated Southerners: "It's like being a bastard at a family reunion and a skunk at a wedding reception...
...COTTON-CROP SUPPORTS will drop below 90% of parity next year (probably to 80%) for the first time in 13 years. With an 8,000,000-bale store already in Government hands and a bumper 14,663,000-bale crop moving into the glutted market, farmers voted 13-to-1 for 1956 crop quotas to make the best of a poor bargain...
Wherever he could make a deal-in E.ast and West Germany, in France and Red China-the Premier has been peddling cotton in exchange for trucks, bulldozers and generators needed...
...Help Wanted" signs are out this week in Kobe and Yokohama and in Osaka girl cotton workers are whipping about on roller skates to speed movement up and down the humming spindle lines. In Osaka's neon-doused Dotombori section, cabarets and bars are putting up "Off Limits to Foreigners" signs in recognition of the fact that Japanese businessmen, and not G.I.s, are today's big spenders...
...style that was to set the acting fashion in Italy from that day to this. She called it realismo and overnight the narrow highways and byways of Italy were crowded with "Ma-gnamni," who frumped their hair down over their eyes, ripped a few strategic seams m their cheap cotton prints and generally made a sensual virtue of postwar economic necessity...