Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compulsory limits on the production of cotton and tobacco producers and imposed prohibitive taxes on production in excess of quotas...
While all this was going on, the price of cotton climbed from 8? to 11.7? a lb.; wheat from 59? to 90?; corn from 39? to 85?; hogs 4? to 7.8?; beef cattle 4? to 5?-national farm income from the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 to more than $6,000,000,000. Not even AAA claims responsibility for all these gains. Drought and dollar devaluation worked in the same direction...
...again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made fully effective...
...Federal official shall invade or ignore the Constitutional rights of the individual citizen." Last week light-hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual Cotton Carnival with William Nedy Mallory (All America football captain of Yale,1924) as King. But Congressmen were less lighthearted. They could see in their minds' eyes Harry Byrd handing them a ballot reading...
...pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative way out of the cotton crisis...