Word: baleful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed that U.S. cotton exchanges boost margins on cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work...
...part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended to cut deep, but it is an enlightening and timely tract on current U.S. literature's peculiar disorders and needs...
...warehouses bulged with a carryover of more than 11 million bales of cotton, at the end of July 1945. Despite bad weather and labor shortages, another 9.1 million bales have just been harvested. And, with soaring prices, U.S. planters are now getting ready to grow a whopping 11.6 million-bale crop...
...Bale after bale of documentary evidence, records, diaries, transcripts, memoranda, all kept and carefully stored by methodical Germans, entered the record. Here in a single trial was historical evidence which, under other circumstances, might require 50 years of research to compile...
President Conant was scheduled to be the third speaker at the meeting, but he declined the invitation. Although in Washington over the weekend, President Conant is expected back Sunday morning, but no further information is avail bale as to the reasons for his absence...