Word: baleful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertising men who staged a national campaign hailing PINK salmon "The King of Food Fish," who also started recipe contests- each recipe to be accompanied by a label from a PINK salmon can. Sixty thousand housewives stopped feeding Pink salmon to their cats, sent in 200,000 recipes, bale on bale of labels. By July 1, the season's left-over cans were reduced to 500,000. This year packers have collected $250,000 to use in further educating the public in the mysteries of Pink (as opposed to Red) salmon. U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries O'Malley...
...bale of cotton was presented last week to the Bremen museum. No ordinary bale of cotton, this! It cost the Bremen Cotton Exchange about $3,500 although cotton usually costs about $124.80 per bale in Berlin.* This bale was the first ever to have crossed the Atlantic in the air. It was part of the Graf Zeppelin's cargo...
...About $86.40 per bale in the U. S., calculated at 18? a pound of a 480-pound bale...
Cotton. The Department of Agriculture announced last week that gins turned out 2,172,000 bales for the October period. This was a decrease of 269,000 compared with September and the price of cotton advanced. The rise was not sustained. Excellent October weather extended picking and increased receipts, and the influence of a depressing stock market and uncertain trade promoted a decline. Cotton closed the week at 20.05 cents a pound for Demember delivery, at the 480 pound rate, $96.24 per bale...
...operate financial news tickers singled out these words, lifted, them from their context and flashed them all over the country to men who speculate in cotton. At once a blizzard of cotton-selling began. In one day's trading, cotton prices dropped off $5.50 to $6 per bale. With 20 million bales the prospective total of their current crop, U. S. cotton growers found themselves some $90,000,000 poorer overnight. Speculators on the "long" side of a previously rising market found themselves sore stranded...