Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the Government paid cotton farmers some $100,000,000 for plowing under about one quarter of their crop, only to find that the harvest of 13,177,000 bales was even larger than the year before. Good growing weather and subterfuges on the part of the farmers were jointly responsible...
What Did Not Happen, and what President Roosevelt wanted most of all, was a thundering upward surge in commodity prices. Wheat moved up a paltry 1? per bushel to 92?, cotton added less thian ½? a pound. But corn, oats, rye, barley remained practically unchanged. Commodity tables duly recorded the weekly range of gold per ounce: low-$34.45; high-$35; last...
University. No. 2 Harvard administrator is Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-top") Murdock, 38, professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts & sciences. Son of a Boston banker, he is solemn, efficient, popular, scholarly, and the author of two books on Increase Mather. He has been President Conant's warm friend since boyhood, was best man at his wedding. But their relations were strained for a time last year by James Conant's shy embarrassment when, not long after congratulating Friend Murdock on his certain election to Harvard's presidency, he himself got the job. Some Harvardmen...
...issue has been brought to a head because in the south the government is going ahead with its cotton control plan with a million contracts, whereby farmers pledge themselves to cut their acreage by 40 per cent under the previous five-year average. Members of Congress report that there is a heavy business being done in the purchase of fertilizer, indicating an intention to stimulate production. Also there is a slowness to sign contracts, because farmers in some instances think they will gain more by staying out of the plan and increasing their acreage than by coming in and accepting...
...there any solution as yet to the problem of disposing of the excess cotton which would be turned back on the producer at the cotton gin if the new tax on surplus goes into effect. Will it be surreptitiously sold? With a surplus be grown? Human nature thus far has resisted control almost everywhere, even in Russia, where the peasants from time to time have refused to give the government its full quota of wheat because they needed it for their food...