Word: ruffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since World War II, the U.S.'s long-held textile trade surplus of $300 million has turned into a gold-draining deficit of $400 million yearly as foreign textile men push low-cost, cheap-labor textiles into the U.S. market. The Textile Institute's President William H. Ruffin, who will be succeeded in the job later this year by Stevens, captured the general mood of the convention: "All that this industry wants is a chance to buy American-grown cotton at the same price it is sold to foreign competition...