Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years proved so accurate and courageous that his remarks are always worth listening to. His mouthpiece, the fortnightly bulletin of the Cleveland Trust, now expresses its opinion that 1924 will be a year of diminished prosperity, and cites the obvious decline in output of iron and steel, automobiles, tires, cotton, wool, shoes and building construction. It also declares that short-term interest charges are about to begin a long decline, and that in consequence food prices should respond by commencing a gradual rise. The bulletin very sanely concludes: "There is good reason to believe at the present time...
...husband had the doctor tie it up again. But such benign doctors only lived in the Middle Age or in Shaw's imagination. Therefore the one hope remaining to Phillipsburg is that tht Damocletian sword of suspended sentence will shortly fall and that the minions of the law with cotton-stuffed ears, will hail this Xantippe to some wild and lonely tower...
Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, predicted that in time the Empire will be able to grow all the cotton it needs...
...major addresses was by John Milliken Parker, Governor of Louisiana. Governor Parker now ranks as a Democrat. In 1916 he was a Progressive, a nominee for Vice President on the Progressive ticket, but the Party passed away before the election. In private life Mr. Parker is a cotton factor. He declared...
...order to get these cooperative associations under way Mr. Meyer and Frank W. Mondell will make a tour of the Northwest, examining conditions. They have an intimate knowledge of cooperation as practiced by tobacco, rice and cotton growers and the fruit raisers of the Pacific. They can at least explain the necessities of such plans, and may initiate the first steps...