Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shrugged our shoulders when we have seen cotton run up & down the scale between 4½? and 28?; wheat run down & up the scale between $1.50 and 30?; corn, hogs, cattle, potatoes, rye, peaches-all of them fluctuating from month to month and from year to year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil...
...Only a few days ago I noted an item in the papers which I thought very significant. It told of increased activity in the textile mills. One reason, said the newspaper account, was the demand for textiles in the manufacture of automobiles. There you have the complete chain. The cotton-growing South, with more money to spend, buys new automobiles. The automobile makers buy more cotton goods from manufacturers in the Northeast and these manufacturers in turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family...
...have ever cultivated into the production of an additional supply of things for Americans to eat. Why . . . are we living on a third-class diet? For the simple reason that the masses of the American people have not got the purchasing power to eat more and better food. Cotton. "Farm income in the United States has risen since 1932 a total of nearly three billions. That is because wheat is selling at better than 90 cents instead of 32 cents; corn at 50 cents instead of 12 cents; cotton at 12 cents instead of 4½ cents, and other crops...
...wonder what cotton would be selling at today if during these past three years we had continued to produce 15 or 16 or 17 million bales each year, adding to our own surplus, adding to the world surplus, and driving the cotton farmers of the South into bankruptcy and starvation. Suffering Clubmen. "I can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of government and the suffering that they are going through because the Government is spending money for work relief. I wish I could take some of these...
When the talkies came, dick made Weary Rino the old technique of manly fortitude this time was a voice. Partly successful of late as a ganglia aviator and in reles of sociological significance of Indian and Southern cotton field worker--The pathes does not capture as before. Like Pickes wealthy, he does not need to make many pictures a his leisure to visit the Printy campus necessary...