Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large New England textile manufacturers, had announced a 10% reduction in wages. Other smaller textile manufacturers followed their leader. President Green sent off two identical letters, one to Andrew G. Pierce, President of the American Woolen Co., the other to Robert Amory, President of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers...
Among the numerous brokers in Manhattan, the rubber brokers must not be forgotten. These functionaries handle sales for future delivery in crude rubber much in the same way that grain or cotton brokers sell or buy futures in their respective commodities...
Since consumption cannot be increased, production must be curtailed. This may be done voluntarily under the economic spur of large stocks and low prices, or involuntarily in case Nature blights the 1926 grape crop. But Nature, fickle jade, prefers to cherish grapes that are not needed, and bedevil cotton and wheat that are badly wanted, both here and abroad...
...striking feature in the July 16 report was the poor condition indicated for the Texas crop; the condition figure for this leading cotton state sank from 64 in the earlier report to only 56 in the later one, due to the continuance of drought in the Southwest. Also, the yield per acre in pounds for Texas fell between the reports from...
Optimists for a big 1925 cotton crop, however, still point out that acreage planted this year is much greater than last year, and that in 1924 the mid-July estimate proved more than 1,500,000 bales less than the cotton crop actually harvested last fall...