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...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...
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...
...Craig, president of the State Bank and Trust Co. at Tallulah, La., came last week a farmer. Last year this farmer had raised 500 bales of cotton. This year he hoped that he might make ten bales. That same morning another farmer had talked to Mr. Craig, had said that not a single bale of cotton would grow on his land this year. His 1926 production had been 300 bales. "Dixie" may still be the "land of cotton," but that portion of "Dixie" hit by the Mississippi flood has become the land of the cotton-less. The people...
...Bale of hay"?straw suitcase. Bearer is left strictly alone, as being too rural to "appreciate...