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...mayor: the opportunity to play official host to the Queen and her consort Prince Philip as they passed through town on a spring tour of the county. Delighted, Dickie plunged elbow-deep into plans for a gala reception at the town hall and a royal inspection of the local cotton mill. But then he learned that Her Majesty was to be attended at the visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen leave...
...half of what CCC bought from U.S. farmers. It offered 375 million Ibs. of butter, was able to sell only 1.4 million Ibs. It offered 20 million bushels of oats, sold only 3.5 million. CCC did not even try to sell its vast holdings of twelve other commodities, including cotton and wool, and wheat, the biggest surplus of all (661 million bushels in inventory). In most cases the reason for holding back was to avoid upsetting world prices or interfering with normal commercial exports...
...state of U.S. popularity in many nations block the sale of surpluses almost everywhere. Bulk buying contracts, such as the United Kingdom has for Argentine meat, often make it impossible for the U.S. to work into new markets. In Hong Kong there is a rule that 25% of the cotton used by the crown colony's mills must come from Commonwealth sources. When the U.S. offered to sell butter to France so that every schoolchild would get a pat of butter with his lunch. French dairymen objected...
...Butler started out by learning to class cotton in Memphis' Front Street sample rooms. Classified 4-F because of a back deformity, he joined the F. M. Crump cotton company and worked there through World War II. At war's end, while others talked recession, Butler bought cotton gins. He built a stake, put it in the cotton market; in one day he reportedly made $1.000,000 speculating in cotton futures. He moved into soybeans, coffee and other commodities, and by last year had $11million...
Last week, as his father's body was brought to the burning ghat near the same temple, the new King's subjects were ordered to go-and pay homage. Men shaved their heads and donned mourning clothes of unbleached cotton. For 13 days no Nepalese would take salt, eat more than one meal a day, or sleep on anything but straw. As the flames licked at the royal cadaver, thousands of Nepalese set up a mournful wail. But King Mahendra was not present; Nepalese custom demanded that he alone of all his late father's subjects must...