Word: cottonland
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...were a large family. We couldn't make the family smaller, so we made the business larger." The brothers put up a cotton mill, soon found that to be successful ginners they would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...
...plot's not much and the girls aren't much, but the whole theatre swayed back and forth when Glenn Miller hit his stride on Chattanooga Choochoo and the Nicholas Brothers and Sister started clicking their heels on the back of a cardboard train panting for cottonland...
...cotton is money in the bank for planters east of the Mississippi-and Atlanta is the one Federal Reserve Capital which continued, last week, to report mounting New Deal prosperity-but 14? per lb. for this year's 9,000,000 bale crop will not bring to all cottonland as much money as last year's 13,000,000 bale crop at an average...
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