Word: grower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified by her determination to overcome the forces which have laid Europe open to dictatorship, she puts an erring girl on the straight and narrow and shames a defeated peach-grower into new life and hope for a harvest...
...Augusta, Ga., the two top men in the U. S. cotton business spoke their thoughts on cotton's future. They were the tall, urbane Texan Will Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted in the Delta, a farmer...
...problem facing the Convention was how, and what portion of, some 10,000,000 Americans can continue to depend on cotton for a living. This living, such as it is (average annual cash income of each U. S. cotton grower: around $400), has always depended in good part on exports. The export market is virtually closed for the duration of the war, if not for good. Last month Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced that his policy would be based on the assumption that it is closed for good (TIME, Jan. 27). He would not only boost the domestic market...
...Defiant Grower Johnston did not say that the Government should be the goat forever. But, comparing surplus cotton stocks to a strategic-materials stockpile, he intimated that the Government might sell the cotton abroad at a profit after the war. (He recalled that after World War I the foreign cotton market soared.) He also placed faith in the Council's fight for greater domestic consumption. He even preached cotton hosiery. When he reproached American girls for running around with silk stockings "like yellow-legged pullets," the wife* of a retired broker named William Henry Wallace Jr., sitting...
...Wallace was the only Council wife so conspicuously clad. One wife had even neglected to bring the cotton dress required for admittance to the Council Ball. Grower Johnston also faced another paradox in the record of the Council's victories. The Council had successfully fought the use of foreign oils in the U. S., on behalf of cottonseed oil. Yet cotton-men have more to fear from anti-import nationalism than any other Americans for, unless the U. S. buys imports from abroad, foreigners have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton...