Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bankhead Cotton Control Act unconstitutional along with...
...Food and tobacco stocks went up with the outlawing of processing taxes and prospective refunds of impounded levies. Since the Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle last June...
...price of wheat was about $1 per bu., virtually the same as at the end of 1934. Cotton at 11½? per lb. was nearly 1? cheaper. Copper cost 8¼? per lb., up nearly 2?. Coffee at 8? per 1b. was down 2½?. Hogs at $9.20 per cwt. were...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...
...Southern Cotton Land...