Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cotton growers, tossed about by the wild selling market of a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 25), regained their equilibrium during the last week, although many still remained, figuratively, on all fours...
Prices wobbled very.little during the week. They averaged slightly under 12½c a pound. The highest price which cotton ever brought was 38c a pound, at New Orleans in 1920. The present rate is slightly more than half the 23c average for last year and slightly less than the 12.3c average for the 1909-14 period...
Reaction. The cry started a month ago will continue a long time. In Texas, growers have already started to plow partly picked cotton fields for the sowing of fall small grains. Discouraged tenant farmers throughout the South are abandoning unpicked cotton for paying jobs in towns and cities. Transient labor is scarce. There are few gleaners...
...Cotton Textile. The Cotton Textile Institute, created last summer to integrate the merchandising of cotton fabrics (TIME, Aug. 2), needs a president. Onetime (1911-17) Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt of Rhode Island has been temporary president. Last week his directors made him chairman...
Simultaneously the U. S. Department of Commerce announced and deplored last week that no less than seven other paramount commodities imported by the U. S. to a total volume of one billion dollars yearly are similarly being restricted in the countries of origin: coffee, potash, mercury, long staple cotton, iodine, nitrates, and sisal hemp...