Word: bolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes out of the ground. Eight to ten bales of cotton are required for each mile of road. If all bituminous resurfacing were done with cotton, a market for some 400,000 bales would be provided annually. Latest development in cotton is an experiment in converting the entire plant-boll, pod, leaves and stem-into cellulose...
...happened in that great course History 1, and Mr. Perkins, head tutor of the well-known and far-famed boll-boys was lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last...
...transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...
...square foot. Furthermore, the swarming insects were deserting drought-withered grains and grasses for the nearest succulent growth-principally corn. Continuous rains in the southeast and no rains at all in the southwest held cotton around 12? per Ib. The Mississippi Plant Board reported an average count of 119 boll weevils to the acre, against 75 the week before, 323 year ago. Prospects of a reduction in breeding stock and mounting feed prices boosted topnotch hog prices to the best level since October ($5 per cwt.), cattle prices to the highest since September...
...area plowed under. The Government is to pay cotton farmers (and the consumer will pay the Government through processing taxes), between $125,00,00 and $150,000,000 for turning under one-quarter of the crop. Yet due to good growing conditions, to the laziness of 1933 boll weevils and to the large acreage planted by the farmers the net reduction in the crop is estimated at less than 700,000 bales or about...