Texas in the Confederacy: An Experiment in Nation Building.
By Clayton E. Jewett. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2002. Pp. [x], 310. $37.50, ISBN 0-8262-1390-1.) Clayton E. Jewett offers a new interpretation of the attitudes and actions of Texans during the Civil War, describing them as a...

The Inman Family: An Atlanta Family from Reconstruction to World War I.
By Tammy Harden Galloway. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. Pp. 186. $29.95, ISBN 0-86554-755-6.) This book is about three generations of a family whose origins lay in eastern Tennessee but whose lives and careers were mostly spent in post-Civil War and early-twentieth-century Atlanta. Author Tammy Harden...

Bummer crop: 'Freedom to Farm' meets the tyranny of the status quo.
"Freedom to Farm" meets the tyranny of the status quo. Rep. Dick Armey of Texas, now the House Majority Leader, once called American farm policy "Moscow on the Mississippi." But as the 104th Congress rewrites the farm bill, perestroika on the Potomac doesn't look too likely. The GOP's...

Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I.
The extraordinary transformation of the world in the last two centuries appears inextricably bound to mass production. Cotton, iron, steel, chemicals, power, wave after wave of new and improved gadgets and machines revolutionized travel, communications, knowledge; food production, processing and distribution; population growth and settlement, and not least the...

China RuiTai Announces Preliminary Estimated Third Quarter 2008 Results.
TAI'AN, Shandong, China, Nov. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China RuiTai International Holdings Co., Ltd. (BULLETIN BOARD: CRUI) ("China RuiTai" or "the Company"), a leading producer and distributor of cellulose ether products in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced preliminary financial results for the third quarter ended September 30,...

China RuiTai Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results.
TAI'AN, Shandong, China, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China RuiTai International Holdings Co., Ltd. (BULLETIN BOARD: CRUI) ("China RuiTai" or "the Company"), a leading producer and distributor of cellulose ether products in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30,...

ICE Futures U.S. Announces Change to Electronic Trading Hours for Agricultural Futures and Options Contracts.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ICE Futures U.S.(R), a wholly-owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. , announced changes to electronic trading hours for certain agricultural futures and options contracts. The changes will be effective with the start of trading on Monday, December 1, 2008, and apply to the following...

/C O R R E C T I O N -- ICE Futures U.S./.
In the news release, ICE Futures U.S. Announces Change to Electronic Trading Hours for Agricultural Futures and Options Contracts, issued earlier today by ICE Futures U.S. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first paragraph, second sentence, should read "Effective with the start of trading...

Naturally Advanced Technologies Completes Successful Spinning Trials of CRAILAR Organic Fibers Sponsored by Hanesbrands Inc. at NC State University.
- Trials Deliver Industrial Hemp Blend Yarn and Fabric Using Conventional Cotton Equipment with No Modifications - - NAT's 100% Organic System Enables Industrial Hemp to Enter Mainstream Apparel Production Using Traditional Cotton Knitting System - PORTLAND, OR, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Naturally Advanced Technologies...

In Brazil-U.S. dispute over subsidized cotton, WTO Dispute Settlement Panel recommends that U.S. conform to Agreement on Agriculture and remove its cotton subsidies.
On September 8, 2004, a Dispute Settlement Panel (DSP) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued its 351-page report in the matter of Brazil's complaint against U.S. subsidies on upland cotton. The U.S. support mechanisms for the cotton industry, include direct payments, export-credit guarantees, production- flexibility contract payments, crop-insurance...