Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Males: Shirt (two pockets), Cotton wash trousers, Lower half of underwear, Socks without garters or no socks at all, Ventilated shoes, Pith helmet or light straw...
...produce enough goods cheaply. Soon a new problem was encountered: how not to produce too much. Just as Industry, able to produce far more than the U.S. had the money to buy, could be saved only by NRA from cut-throat competition, so farmers producing too much wheat and cotton could be saved only by AAA's crop reductions. But hardly had Dr. Tugwell last week finished telling his radio audience about the "economy of abundance" when up popped a government-paid economist to deny its existence. According to this latest New Deal critic, the "economy of abundance...
...wrote Mr. Doane, "in order to supply our population with barely one-half a new garment each, we were forced to import more than one-half billion pounds of wool and cotton, to say nothing of other fibres. And had we then had the mechanical capacity to supply two full garments each we would have been forced to increase our supply of cotton, either by additional importation or cultivation, by a full five billion pounds; and our wool by more than one billion pounds, which means an increase of six times our present number of sheep, and an additional...
...living used by Researcher Doane in his calculations should have been the same standard at which the New Deal was aiming. Yet such an assumption was contradicted by Dr. Tugwell's statement that the U. S. has a surplus of 7,000,000 cattle. Likewise the reduction of the cotton crop by 10 million acres removed all chance that the New Deal would this year be able to supply every U. S. citizen with two outer garments...
When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...