Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Substitutes who are expected to take the trip to Princeton are L. P. Cotton '28 and R. P. Gibb...
...revenues (mostly customs duties) and expenditures of the country are less than half a million dollars a year, and foreign commerce is about three times as much. There are no railroads; there are about 55 miles of roads suitable for automobiles. Cotton goods, gin and tobacco are leading imports; rubber, palm oil, coffee, ivory, etc. are the chief exports. Rubber gets into the category of a chief product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation...
...Tutein '28, R. P. Gibb '29, and L. P. Cotton '29 are substitutes who have shown a great deal of promise in the intensive drills which have been held during the past two weeks, and will probably get into action in today's match. Gibb and Cotton, though Freshmen, are players of some experience, and Tutein was a member of last year's squad...
Substitutes expected to play are L. P. Cotton '29, R. P. Gibb '29, and E. A. Turtein...
...excuse given by the Government estimators for the sudden recent jump in their cotton figures, is "the September rains, which have sensationally improved prospects in regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...