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"maff" |
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23 Oct 2003 02:58:49 PM |
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OT: Cottonocracy |
Cottonocracy
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2137425
Oct 16th 2003
From The Economist print edition
THE temptation to do a hatchet job on the other king of California
must have been enormous. Jim Boswell, the world's largest grower of
cotton, and possibly also of wheat, alfalfa and safflower, presents a
grossly fat target. He has grown so big harvesting government
agricultural subsidies that when Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, two
journalists from the Los Angeles Times, drove across Boswell farms in
southern California they travelled the distance between Washington,
DC, and Philadelphia without ever leaving the family's land.
J.G. Boswell
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=JG%20Boswell&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Cottonocracy |
18 Nov 2003 04:53:12 PM |
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Cottonocracy
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2137425
Oct 16th 2003
From The Economist print edition
THE temptation to do a hatchet job on the other king of California
must have been enormous. Jim Boswell, the world's largest grower of
cotton, and possibly also of wheat, alfalfa and safflower, presents a
grossly fat target. He has grown so big harvesting government
agricultural subsidies that when Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, two
journalists from the Los Angeles Times, drove across Boswell farms in
southern California they travelled the distance between Washington,
DC, and Philadelphia without ever leaving the family's land.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/deconland/messages?msg=1107
J.G. Boswell
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22JG+Boswell%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=JG%20Boswell&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
In the Valley of Power
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54851-2003Nov17.html
By Chris Lehmann,
deputy editor of Book World, whose e-mail address is
lehmannc@washpost.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2003; Page C04
THE KING OF CALIFORNIA
J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
By Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman
PublicAffairs. 558 pp. $30
In popular imagination -- and California is about nothing if not
popular imagination -- the Golden State is a strictly bipolar
proposition, with the glitzy, sprawling and disaster-prone southern
end locked in seemingly never-ending political and cultural warfare
with the crunchy, high-tech and picturesque north. Yet between these
high- profile poles is the enormous agricultural barony known as the
San Joaquin Valley. For all the media attention that the valleys of
Silicon and hills of Hollywood soak up, farming remains far and away
California's leading industry, with some $25 billion in annual
revenues.
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