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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...card holders, in addition to selling their cotton without undue complication, will receive a Government bounty of 2.4? a pound. But buyers of red-card cotton must note whether the farmer is selling cotton grown on acreage beyond an allotted quota. If so, the buyer must collect a 2-cent penalty tax on each pound bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: White & Red | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...baby and if they valued the friendship they would help. Dealers were delighted to help because at the moment they were nursing a grudge against the "Big Four," whose prices (and dealer profit margins) in 1933 were at new lows in a bitter price battle with the ten-cent brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...worked in Honolulu, New York, the Dutch East Indies, Author Robertson called his family chronicle Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks, wenching, gambling, stealing, murdering. What bothered old settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Descendant's Novel | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Little short of incredible were figures presented to the United States Senate yesterday demonstrating Japan's dependence upon America for the raw materials of war. From us she buys 60 per cent of her oil, 90 per cent of her copper, 91 per cent of her automobiles and parts, more than 40 per cent of her pig iron, and nearly 50 per cent of her machinery and engines. In the light of our sanctimonious concern for the welfare of the Chinese, these facts are amazing indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN CAN GET ALONG | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...buildings dates from its founding in 1834. Jointly arranged by the Museum of Modern Art and ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, the competition carried a first prize of $400, several smaller prizes. But Wheaton agreed to hire the winner as architect of the art centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre was not built. To make sure that some designs would be successful, Architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra, and the Detroit firm of Lyndon & Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wheaton's Theatre | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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