Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Property damage was beyond, estimate. Millions of acres of cotton land were under water, with the flood moving on the "sugar bowl" section of Louisiana from which comes much of the nation's sugar...
...University horsemen who played against Dedham Whites, showed great strength against their strong opposition. H. A. White '25 was a tower of strength for the Crimson scoring four goals, and breaking up his opponents plays with great skill. J. P. Cotton '28 at number two, and J. P. Mandell '29 at back, each scored a goal...
Near England, Ark., an airplane observer saw a shirt being flapped from a hole in the roof of a cotton gin. Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati...
Property damage was estimated from $500,000,000 to a billion. The flooded zone is all rich cotton land. Most of the victims were small farmers-owners of several acres, a few pigs, chickens, cows, a mule. Their lives spared, they saw watery desolation where their possessions had been...
...Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York just finished counting the number of stockings made during 1925. Of the 103,707,336 dozen pairs made then, 50,402,000 dozen were entirely of cotton; of about 39,000,000 dozen pairs of half hose, 21,000,000 dozen were of cotton. And, proudly noted the Association, cotton had to be used to reenforce the tops, toes and heels of two-thirds of the rest...