Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated white powder. Pronounced the Department of Justice man: "The best bomb I have seen in many years of police work. Powerful enough to blast through an ordinary stone wall...
...down on our knees," said John D. Rust last week, "and picked cotton when we were boys. We decided then that we would try to invent a machine that would do this back-breaking toil. We have that machine. It will do the work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent...
...Memphis last week trooped cotton farmers. To Chicago on the same day trooped corn & wheat farmers. Their object was to find out just what AAA was going to make them do to share in the $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 annual bounty under the new Soil Conservation Act. To Memphis went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to Chicago Assistant Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, to explain things: The Government meant to take 30,000,000 out of 300,000,000 acres normally devoted to soil-depleting crops (cotton, corn, wheat) and put them into soil-conserving crops (alfalfa, soya beans...
...soon apparent that Wendy Hiller possessed mimic assets rare among seasoned actresses. Like Katharine Cornell, she has the trick of inflecting her voice in several keys. She handles her body with the articulate abandon of Elisabeth Bergner, who looks good in shorts, too. The Hillers, well-to-do Manchester cotton people, were opposed to Wendy's going on the stage. But if Hollywood lets her sail back to England after Love on the Dole is over, Broadway will be much surprised...
...Since cotton and tobacco farmers are on the whole devoted to AAA, the Democratic South should certainly be solid this year. The Gallup poll shows that section of the country to be stronger than any other area for Roosevelt. Thus Mr. Hurja properly counts 146 electoral votes from 13 Southern states...