| 41. | Nearly half of the SP Fleet was lettered for subsidiary Cotton Belt, but an even hundred were directly Southern Pacific.
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| 42. | Many former SSW locomotives are used by Union Pacific today, although few still sport unmodified " Cotton Belt " paint.
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| 43. | Roundup Ready cotton was introduced and planted on 850, 000 acres across the U . S . cotton belt this year.
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| 44. | The crop, the third largest ever, benefited from rains in Texas during August and favorable harvest weather across the cotton belt.
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| 45. | In 1912, after years of fundraising by devoted Methodists in the North Carolina cotton belt, the college opened with 40 students.
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| 46. | The Cotton Belt corridor plans continued to generate controversy right up to the day of the vote on the 2030 plan.
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| 47. | Thriving from the cotton trade and associated business, Clarksdale soon earned the title " The Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt ".
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| 48. | "Four generations ago, black men like us were enslaved, " he said, his oratory part Cotton Belt preacher, part New Age prophet.
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| 49. | Planting begins as early as February, in South Texas, and as late as June in the northern area of the Cotton Belt.
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| 50. | Those rights would give Burlington Northern Santa Fe access to track in such locations as the lucrative Cotton Belt line through East Texas.
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