Cotton Industry Continues to Work on Influencing Fashion, Trade.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | April 18, 2004 | Copyright

By Jane Roberts, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 18--Bill Weaver must shudder every time he thinks of John Travolta and the whole '70s disco scene.

Nothing hurt cotton sales more than all that flimsy, filmy polyester.

Since 1976, the U.S. market share for cotton fabric has risen from 36 percent to 60 percent.

Nothing is sweeter to Weaver, 65, the affable Edmondson, Ark., cotton farmer who in February was elected chairman of Cotton Inc., the arm of the national Cotton Board charged with ...

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