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James Earl Carter Sr. was in business when his first son was born on Oct. 1, 1924. He managed a grocery store, owned the town's icehouse and dry-cleaning plant and later sold farm supplies. Jimmy's uncle was a mule trader, and occasional trips to Atlanta with him to buy mules to work the fields were young Carter's only exposure to nonagrarian society. At Plains High School he played basketball and went to "prom parties," those heavily chaperoned Friday night socials where the boys signed the girls' cards for a five-minute promenade on the front porch...
THORNTON BRADSHAW: Each one of us is, I suppose, a free trader except with regard to his own industry...
Because protectionism seemed good politics in a congressional election year, throughout 1970 the Administration, joined mainly by Southern textile magnates and their friends in Congress, pressed hard for a bill that would impose import quotas on textiles. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, Arkansan and free trader, feared that any such law would wind up as a Christmas-tree bill for protectionists eager to defend domestic prices for everything from hats to shoes. Official negotiations with the Japanese had ended, so early this year Mills began private bargaining-with the Administration's knowledge-that resulted...
...house was built by Thomas Oliver, a member of the Class of 1753, from the inherited fortune of a wealthy English trader in the West Indies who dealt primarily in molasses and slaves...
...Bertha. Bulletins and magazines alert collectors to sales, trades and finds in the bottle market. Dubuque, Iowa's weekly Antique Trader, for example, regularly carries at least 15 pages devoted to the fad; a recent issue listed such hot items as Ezra Brooks' Big Bertha ($25), Beam's Gold Fox ($95), Dr. Seth Arnold's cough killer ($2), Dr. Fenner's Kidney & Backache Cure ($14) and a (misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz...