Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even a hundred years ago Mark Twains fellow innocent remembered Venice not for the Doge's Palace or the Grand Canal, but for the back cotton socks he bought there. Today the swarthy gondoliers are waging a last desperate struggle, with picketers instead of stilettos, to keep motor boat exhausts from barking all night at the inoffensive Venation moon. This malady of tourists gangrene which has brought railroads in to Venice and made Paris mostly English, is attacking the simple yodelers of the Swiss mountains...
Corn is regularly the biggest crop in the U. S. although wheat and cotton attain more prominence in the headlines through their political significance...
...cotton crop is now ceasing to be entirely conjecture and beginning to become history. The crop is being picked and soon the ginnery figures will begin definitely to indicate its real amount. However, the period of conjecturing and estimating is not yet over. The Department of Agriculture has announced, as its estimate for the current crop on Oct. 1, 12,499,000 bales of 500 lb. each. This is a reduction of only 97,000 from the estimate by the same source for Sept. 16. The Department was almost equally reassuring as to the condition of the crop, which...
Texas is easily the premier cotton state, with an estimated crop this year of 4,255,000 bales; next comes Oklahoma, with 1,272,000 bales; and then Georgia, with 1,118,000; Mississippi, with 1,113,000; and Arkansas, with 1,068,000. No other state promises to have a million bale crop this year, although the next state in order, Alabama, is set down...
...flew south through the shining levels of the air, and south still after the sun had gone down and the moonlight poured on its silver sides, dimming the lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile of the only plant in the world which produces the helium that fills its belly. So was ended the first lap of the journey. The time...