Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sudan, apart from its strategical importance to Anglo-Indian communications, is abundantly watered by the tributaries of the River Nile. Its great plains are, by a combination of this fact and their geographical position, eminently suited to the raising of cotton. This caused that veteran Socialist-publicist, Sidney Webb, and his wife to become parties to the Government's Imperialist designs...
...white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt...
...condition of the crop in various states varied widely, as it usually does. Arizona made the best showing at 92%, with California a close second at 90. Tennessee cotton was poorest...
...preliminary estimate of crop yield for this year was placed at 12,144,000 bales, which exceeds any crop's actual production back to 1920, when 13,439,603 bales resulted. In 1921 cotton crop production was only 7,953,641 bales; in 1922, 9,761,817 bales; and in 1923, 10,128,478 bales. The preliminary estimate of the acreage planted in cotton also showed an increase of 1,702,000 acres, or 4.4% over last year...
...total cotton acreage in the U. S. this year is 40,403,000 acres. The leading cotton state is Texas with 15,595,000 acres; Oklahoma is second with 3,672,000 acres...