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Philadelphia's Democratic Representative William Green sent up a long amendment that proposed, in a nutshell, to exclude peanuts from the list of "basic" farm commodities-wheat, corn, tobacco, rice, cotton-that would receive 90% parity. The Democratic leadership paid little attention to Green's move; similar amendments had been easily defeated in the past...
...richest, widest realm. It is eighty times the size of the mother country, and half again as populous. Booming Congo exports provide the dollars and pounds that make the Belgian franc one of the world's hardest currencies. Belgians drink Congo coffee, wear shirts made of Congo cotton, wash them with soap made from Congo palm kernels. Without the mighty Congo, little Belgium might go broke; with it, a nation of 9,000,000 still counts as a world empire...
...Congo has excellent roads because the rural population is compelled to labor on them; it is developing scientific agriculture by forcing peasant farmers to grow minimum quotas of cotton, and jailing them for failure to deliver. Each Negro city dweller is fingerprinted and must carry a plastic identity card attached to his tax receipt. Yet the Congo is one of the few places in Africa where there is practically no racial tension...
...Colorado's Allott, Maryland's Beall, Connecticut's Bush, Kansas' Carlson, New Jersey's Smith, New Hampshire's Cotton, Pennsylvania's Duff, New York's Ives, California's Kuchel, Maine's Payne, Massachusetts' Saltonstall...
...Bias. In 1938, Claire had her first big success-and speeded up the trend to casual clothes-with her Monastic dress. Until then, American women had little choice of styles between a cotton house dress and an afternoon dress. The Monastic dress gave American fashion a new flexibility that it has never lost. Loose-hanging and cut on the bias,*it did not sell at first. Then a buyer from Manhattan's Best & Co. casually asked for a New York exclusive, and ordered 50 Monastics in wool and 50 in faille. Best's ran a full-page...