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...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining officially approved a summer and tropical uniform: "silver-tan" cotton twill Bermuda-length shorts, long socks, short-sleeved shirts, belted bush jackets and pith helmets. The new uniform will not be available in a post exchange until this fall, will not be issued to recruits until next July, and will not be worn throughout the Air Force until 1959. For the time being, no one will be allowed to wear shorts off-base. Explained an Air Force officer, "We have to get used to looking at our knees, and that's going...
...businessmen, the nation's farmers have turned to automation. Typical of the great change are the Bidart brothers, John, 41, and Frank, 49, who started out in 1932 with 300 acres near Bakersfield, Calif., a borrowed tractor and four mules. Now they farm 5,600 acres of prime cotton land by machine. They have a cotton gin, 14 cotton pickers (costing $11,000 apiece), 24 tractors and eight trucks all equipped with two-way radios. Says John Bidart who also owns half-interest in a $7,000 plane used to spray the cotton: We couldn't get along...
Once farmers pooled their money to buy a tractor or a combine, shared it from farm to farm. Now every farmer wants his own. Any new development catches on with prairiefire speed. In California's Kern County, for example, cotton now accounts for 40% of the county's $224 million annual income from agriculture, largely because of mechanical cotton pickers. Says one equipment dealer: "In 1946, we sold six cotton pickers For the next eight years we never sold less than 100 machines, and in 1951 our sales-went over 200." Today, there are about 1,500 cotton...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for $14 million. By writing its losses off against the mills' profits, the purchase was made largely an intracompany, bookkeeping operation, cost Botany little in cash...
...fertile valley of French Equatorial Africa's Mayo-Kebbi River the cotton fields lay untended, and the sun beat down upon hundreds of deserted huts. Where some 40,000 Africans had once lived and worked, only a handful were to be seen, and they were mostly blind. Nearly everyone had fled the valley before the terror of the "Nbwa," the fly that blinds...