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...fields, working 10 hours a day, six days a week, picking the 'white gold' for $2.50 a day (standard wage for adults in Benton and Marshall counties). Another school break occurs in May and June, so that the children can help 'chop' cotton (essentially weeding with a hoe...
...fields, working 10 hours a day, six days a week, picking the 'white gold' for $2.50 a day (standard wage for adults in Benton and Marshall counties). Another school break occurs in May and June, so that the children can help 'chop' cotton (essentially weeding with a hoe...
...when she's in a situation where she can let her hair down." Others find her barefoot-folksy talk a little too much, as when she drawls, "He's noisier than a mule in a tin barn," or "I'm busier than a man with one hoe and two rattlesnakes." But the overwhelming majority of the people who know her give Lady Bird exceedingly high marks for personal charm and attractiveness. "I've never talked to anyone who didn't like her," says Blanche Halleck, wife of the House Republican leader. Lindy Boggs, wife...
Exporters of U.S. cotton, who this year will ship $600 million worth of the nation's sixth largest export, have a tough row to hoe. More and more European buyers are complaining about the condition of U.S. cotton. "America sends us the worst-made-up bales," says Harry Tonge, chairman of Britain's Raw Cotton Committee. Grumbles one Genoa importer: "The condition of U.S. cotton cries out for revenge." Some countries are beginning to take revenge. Communist Bulgaria judged a shipment to be so shoddy that it not only delayed unloading the $2,750,000 cargo last month...
...empaneled for all criminal contempt suits arising under the bill. Ordinarily on the side of the angels in civil rights matters, Morton now found himself being privately accused by some civil rights advocates of just trying to show the folks back home that he knew who buttered his hoe-cakes every six years...