Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head...
...practice Dr. Hartman applies a pellet of cotton, moistened with Hartman's Solution, to the dentine of a cavity for two minutes. Thereafter for 20 to 30 minutes, sufficient time for the dentist to drill for a filling, the tooth remains insensitive...
...strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton to 5? a pound.' He felt the same about hogs. I do not know how long a time there is in 'immediately.' It is more than a week...
...mopped up all these subsidiary questions, the first two in acting on the case of Louisiana rice millers who obtained a temporary injunction against payment of processing taxes (TIME, Dec. 2), the third in deciding the case of a Texan who sued a railroad which refused to transport his cotton because the Bankhead Act's taxes had not been paid on the shipment...
...Cotton was the only regulated farm product in which a serious surplus still exists. While the carryover had been cut from 13,000,000 bales to 9,000,000 at the start of the crop year, it was still 4,000,000 bales above normal. And cotton sagged last week, distant futures slipping below 10? per Ib. Meantime, elimination of the 4.2? cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some...