Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved legislation completing the barter transaction whereby 600,000 bales of U. S. cotton will be exchanged for British rubber...
Among commodities that rose in price were most of the metals. Copper soared from 13? a pound in early 1914 to 35? in 1917. But as wheat, sugar and copper went up, cotton (little of which was used for gun cotton) fell from 13? a pound to 8? in six months. Coffee and tobacco followed the price pattern set by cotton. Cotton piled up in U. S. warehouses, coffee clogged the docks of Santos in Brazil...
...buyer of cotton ($52,644,000 worth last year...
Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
...other commodities Japan might lose her U.S. market more or less completely but, except as Japan's domestic consumption of cotton fell off, U.S. cotton producers might not suffer: if Brazil, for example, sells cotton to Japan instead of Britain, the U.S. should be able to sell to Britain instead of Japan...