COTTON FOR BRITAIN
DISPUTE OVER QUALITY
NEW YORK, October 21
With the current season's crop a lower grade staple than last season's, the War Production Board and the Army are objecting strenuously to giving Britain large quantities of the better grades of cotton, according to the Washington correspondent of the "Journal of Commerce." The British recently modified their demands slightly, but they still insist that the United States lend-lease them middling or better grade cotton. Army officials are reported to be objecting on the ground that the diversion of so much high-grade cotton to Britain would decrease further the amount available for the home manufacture of cotton military goods. An unnamed Government official suggested that Britain be told she could have only an average of the current crop, and he claimed that some local mills will be unable to meet their war contracts unless they are able to obtain bigger supplies of high-grade cotton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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154COTTON FOR BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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