Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other heartening signs of reviving trade. Many cotton mills have resumed production, thanks to the first shipments of cotton from Anderson, Clayton & Co. In the best free enterprising tradition, Anderson, Clayton had shipped the cotton without knowing who would buy it or how it would be paid...
Traders feared that the Chinese Government would handle the cotton, thus set a pattern for state trading. But the Government, significantly, let the cotton be sold through private channels. Paying Anderson, Clayton was more complicated. Buyers paid Chinese dollars to Chinese merchants with dollar balances in the U.S. The latter then paid Anderson, Clayton...
People in Rutledge's frame stores and cotton warehouses assumed that he had been paroled, congratulated him, seemed to take it for granted that he had mended his ways. He had. He went to work on a farm, married, fathered three handsome children. He became a leader in church and school affairs, never touched liquor, always paid his bills. He told his wife of his past, and she stuck by him. But his fear of arrest never left him. Two years ago, he moved to Atlanta, where he went to work as a carpenter...
...broadened OPA's plan of "incentive" price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household articles...
Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...