Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attendance. Had the country press in Minnesota given this any publicity there would have been fully 10,000 people there for this gathering. Ninety percent of the country editors in Minnesota are living back in 1880 (mentally) and should be plowed under along with Secretary Wallace's surplus cotton...
...preservative while he consulted with other anatomists on what to do. Then he flayed and boned "Harriet" piecemeal, spent months getting out every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint, pinned her to a board...
Married. Violet Hilton, 28, one-half of the Hilton Siamese twins; and Trombonist James Moore, 25; on the 50-yd. line of Texas Centennial's Cotton Bowl; in Dallas. Because she is joined to Twin Daisy at the hips, Twin Violet has been refused marriage licenses in Manhattan, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark...
...raised a garden and fed ourselves entirely save for sugar, salt, coffee, and wheat flour. During the War, we did without flour and cane sugar! And we lived exceedingly well. Perhaps TIME doesn't know that R. E. Lee Wilson, who became the largest individual producer of cotton in the world, began life as a sharecropper, and that a Negro-Pickens Black of Auvergne, Ark.-has acquired several thousand acres of land by his own effort. His son bought an airplane last year! Of course the tenant system has its abuses and abusers. So has everything else...
Bread and feedstuffs were not the only commodities to enjoy the boom. Though little affected by drought except in the Southeast, cotton soared above 13½? per lb. The year's low was about 10?, and in cotton a 1? change means at least $50,000,000 to the South. What gave cotton its big push last week was a government report estimating the total planting on July 1 at 30,600,000 acres. Though that was a gain over last year's unusually small acreage, it was still 26% below the old-time average. Meantime world cotton...