U.S. COTTON CROP
FILLING BRITAIN’S DEMANDS STRENUOUS OBJECTIONS MADE New York, Oct. 21. With the current season’s crop of a lower grade staple than last, the War Production Board and the Army are objecting strenuously to giving Britain large quantities of better grades of cotton, according to the Washington correspondent of the “Journal of Commerce.” The British recently modified their demands slightly, but still insist that the United States lend-lease them middling or better-grade cotton. Army officials are reported to be objecting on the grounds that diversion of so much high-grade cotton to Britain decreases the further amount available for 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 claimed some local mills would be unable to meet war contracts unless they were able to obtain bigger supplies of high-grade cotton.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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148U.S. COTTON CROP Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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