Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has such a complete reversal been indicated as in the U. S. cotton report for July 16, as compared with that for June 25. The earlier estimate of the crop had indicated a "condition" of 75.9, and a total crop of 14,339,000 bales. Suddenly the statistics veered around, and the later report indicated condition at only 70.4 and a total crop of only 13,588,000 bales-a smaller output than the actual 1924 crop of 13,627,836 bales. The discrepancy between the two estimates for the current crop amounts to 751,000 bales...
...incident created many conjectures. Some held that the June 25 report of a large crop had depressed cotton prices, enraged planters, stirred up politicians and frightened the Government employes making it; and that the latter were in consequence trying to right the matter by making an underestimate of the crop to raise cotton prices and allay political wrath. This is not the first time that political manipulation of the Washington crop estimates has been suspected and charged. However, the position of cotton prophet is a difficult one at best, and the crop itself is subject to sudden changes of condition...
...time there was quiet. Suddenly last week Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Klan, directed the Colorado Klan to hold all the Klan's funds and property subject to his orders. This property included a $60,000 interest in a cotton mill. Again a large body of local Klansmen rose up in protest. At a meeting at which Dr. Locke was not present, they turned in their Klan membership cards, and took out membership in "The Minute Men of America,"* an organization which was described as fostering similar ideals...
Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...
...judge's bench, a cotton-topped, curly-headed boy of four played about, waiting to draw the names of venire-men for the jury from a box, a duty assigned to a young child by state law. The Judge himself, John T. Raulston of Winchester, Tenn., after opening the court and calling a special sitting of the grand jury to reindict Scopes so that there might be no mistake, sat back in his chair chewing gum, waving to friends among the spectators, occasionally calling for order when growls of prejudice greeted the cross-questioning to which Darrow and Malone...