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...crops, 400 million bushels of wheat and 1,000,000 bales of cotton will be set aside (i.e., bought and stored by the Government) for stockpiling and foreign relief...
...schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils arrived in the same buses, started the year, without incident. "Similar experiences," said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "are occurring throughout Missouri ... In Little Dixie [central Missouri], 52 Negroes enrolled for high school at Fulton. In the heart of the Bootheel cotton country, 20 attended classes at formerly white schools in Sikeston . . . Time is running out on race discrimination in this America. Missouri at least can tell time a little better than some states...
...Peale retired to a big farm, which he soon made a model of scientific agriculture. He started a small cotton mill, successfully manufactured porcelain teeth for his cronies, and urged a device which he had built for taking enemas on anyone who seemed peaked. At 86 Peale died, having served freedom, progress and art to his utmost. In art, his utmost was short of greatness and not nearly as varied as the whole of his life. But he left a fine picture record of great men and great times-times in which, among other things, the artist...
Readjustment to a shrunken, peacetime market was further complicated by a drop in exports as war-torn nations got back in the markets again. Result: U.S. exports of cotton goods, which totaled 1.5 billion square yards in 1947, were down to 600 million square yards last year...
...South (where only 15% of mills are unionized v. 75% in the North) saved many a faltering company. Not only were labor costs cheaper in the South, but the new mills were far more efficient. The South has other advantages, e.g., it is closer to such raw materials as cotton and cellulose, and taxes are lower. But concentration of the industry in new areas is creating new problems for textilemen. So many companies have gone South that rising wages in some areas are almost as high as in New England. The cost of building schools and streets for new mill...