Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans are bad losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce something like the scheme the British are using with rubber, our farm difficulties would be solved.* Both the British and the Democrats in Congress pointed to the U. S. high tariff as an instance of a similar policy of protection to native industries...
...farmers are rich enough to pay income taxes; that 553,000 farmers own radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food, fuel and housing by the farm; that an odor of the cotton plant has been isolated and plans are being laid to manufacture it synthetically as a bait to lure boll weevils to their doom...
...State textile men declare this is an impossible handicap for them to carry as against the freer conditions in North Carolina, and accordingly they are seeking a 54-hour working week from the Legislature. They claim that it is more expensive to operate a cotton mill in Massachusetts than in any of the other textile states, and that the local cotton industry has practically lost its markets to the South...
...spindles operated in this country, 16,000,000 (43%) are located in southern states, 19,000,000 (51%) in New England, and 2,000,000 (6%) in other states. But actual spindle hours last September were 248 in southern cotton-growing states as compared with only 131 in New England?showing that southern textile mills get much more actual use out of their machinery than is the case in New England, and consequently can operate at much lower costs...
...dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes the extremes of compassion and ruthless violence, much as the city now basks sleepily in hot sun, now is hammered with a furious hurricane, now basks again...