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Hershey was born on an Indiana farm in 1893 During the thirties, he developed the draft system which has provided more than 14,5 million men for wars in Europe, the Pacify, Korea, and finally Vietnam. He became director of the system four months before Pearl Harbor...
...king's men-the 300,000 U.S. cotton farmers-will harvest little more than 11 million bales this year, compared with 18 million in 1955, when the U.S. produced half the world's supply. That proportion is now down to a fifth-and the U.S. cotton industry is under assault from growers in Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. Last year the U.S. exported only 2.7 million bales of cotton, compared with 4.2 million...
Even more of a threat is posed by the rapid advances of synthetics, which last year outsold cotton 2 to 1. The cotton industry is fighting back, but its $13 million research and advertising campaign amounts at best to a rearguard action. Research is concentrated on quick development of permanent-press fabrics made entirely of cotton. Ordinarily, such fabrics must be strengthened with synthetics, since the chemicals used to impart a permanent press weaken cotton fibers. The first limited success was an all-cotton durable-press shirt marketed this year...
...stay on the California coast in 1965. It took Phil Dexter a year to build his first model -in his backyard-and another year to get it working the way he wanted it. Clairol Inc., which uses surfing as a motif to promote hair coloring, put up the two million for the project. Now, two years later, it includes a 20-acre Polynesia-style complex of palms and high-roofed South Pacific huts housing shops, concessions and picnic areas...
...made into a regular Wisconsin county, tax exemptions were cut off, and Indians who occupied land were allowed to buy or rent it. In the eight years since termination, many have become dead weights on the state's welfare programs. They have, in fact, cost Wisconsin nearly $2 million...