Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final crop yield of 902,749,000 bu. last year. Market (Chicago, No. 2 red) last week, $1.42 bu.; last year, $1.62. Progress has been slow on the Board's formation of a National Farm Grain Growers Association to stabilize prices. Reason: difficulty of securing adequate storage space. Cotton. Prices were down due to a larger crop than was expected. Latest U. S. estimate: 14,915,000 bales. Latest traders' estimate: 15,000,000 bales. Market (New York, middling upland): Last week, 18? per lb.; last year, 19 4/5? per lb. Within the month the Farm Board...
...hospital, keepers held a council, wired to Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted...
...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
...beginnings were ancient, humble. Michael Owens was by trade a blower of glass bottles. He blew, blew, blew, until he grew tired of blowing. In 1889 he stopped blowing, started thinking. Thirteen years of thought produced in 1902 the Owens Bottle Machine, as epochal in glass manufacture as the cotton gin was in the cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo...
...Cotton. To the Georgia Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association was voted a loan...