Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long awaited final estimate of cotton production for 1923 made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture placed the current crop at 10,081,000 bales. This figure, although 167,000 bales un der the Government estimate of Nov. 2, was still larger than some of the trade had anticipated, and in consequence cotton prices at first fell off somewhat on the N. Y. Cotton Ex change, but only to rise still higher when the full significance of the figures was realized. The bales with which the estimate deals weigh 500 pounds, and thus the crop should amount...
...same period amounted to $292,000,000. The November exports were the largest for any month since February, 1921; imports ports proved more stationary, since they proved only slightly less than for October or for November, 1922. The large recent exports are mainly due to high prevailing prices for cotton, which figures so prominently in exported commodities every autumn...
...basic industries, however, cheerful news is beginning to appear. Oil producers prophesy curtailment of production, and the prices of crude have been raised in some fields. Steel orders are reported in prospect. Agricultural surveys show that the farmer is far from insolvent, excepting in the wheat belt. Cotton planters who managed to grow much cotton are well off, although spinners' takings here show another tendency to decline in fear of a curtailment of consumption...
...anyone has been brought up so wrapped in cotton that he, like the famous dauphin, cannot see why the poor do not eat cake when they cannot get bread, he should read the stories now published daily in the New York Times about the Hundred Neediest Cases in that great city. If after reading a few of these tragedies his spirit is not humbled, then his case is hopeless...
...very high, and the public is buying goods in generous quantities. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales established a new high record during last October, which was 6% over the level reached the previous month. Sales of woolens have been particularly large; with cotton and silks dragging considerably behind. In anticipation of the Christmas trade, stores began to stock up in mid-autumn; the stocks in department stores last October for the third successive month showed an increase, and on October 31, stood 22% larger than on July 31. Chain stores, five and ten cent...