Formed in 1953, the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association is a farmed-owned cooperative effort in the United States. PCCA distributes its cotton through its computerized trading system, TELCOT.
Famous quotes containing the words plains, cotton, cooperative and/or association:
“When I say artist I dont mean in the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether it be the plains of the westor the iron ore of Penn. Its all a big game of constructionsome with a brushsome with a shovelsome choose a pen.”
—Jackson Pollock (19121956)
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Then we grow up to be Daddy. Domesticated men with undomesticated, frontier dreams. Suddenly lifeor is it the children?is not as cooperative as it ought to be. Its tough to be in command of anything when a baby is crying or a ten-year-old is in despair. Its tough to feel a sense of control when youve got to stop six times during the half-hour ride to Grandmas.”
—Hugh ONeill (20th century)
“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)