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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosopher from the moon, most fantastic sight in the U. S. last week would have been that of thousands of cultivators black and white trudging patiently out into the fields to plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Big Dump | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...girl who wears a cotton stocking Need never give her door a locking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...cooperate with the Department of Agriculture experts in developing, instead of cotton, noncompeting products which the U. S. can depend on in wartime-rubber, quinine, hardwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Something Practical | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

When FSCC's President Jesse Tapp was shelved along with the two-price plan late in January, he was succeeded by a well-groomed young (39) businessman named Milo Randolph Perkins. In 1934 when outspoken Milo Perkins was running his own cotton-bagging business in Houston, he wrote Henry Wallace a hot letter denouncing administrative red tape in the first AAA, wrote an article in the Nation excoriating the shortsightedness of his fellow capitalists. In 1935 Henry Wallace hired Mr. Perkins as Assistant Secretary. He later became Assistant Farm Security Administrator, learned plenty at first hand about the woes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ticket Dole? | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...After that, he bought control of Phoenix Securities Corp., an inconspicuous investment trust then worth some $4,000,000, lured young Walter Mack Jr. away from Equity Corp. to help him run it. Financier Mack comes of a wealthy family, was 1917 at Harvard, operated a cotton mill for a while, married a granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn, eventually developed a penchant for politics and financial reorganizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Design for Making Money | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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