Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of the new year taps were sounded this week for the 1938 college football season. While 215,000 fans watched the ceremonies in New Orleans, Miami, Pasadena and Dallas, millions of stay-at-homes, by their radios, followed events in the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl...
...there was the regular pigskin season. Then a few teams decided to stage intersectional clashes to prolong the season into December. Shortly some one had the idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...
...such loans were intended by Congress to have some relation to agricultural pursuits or at least to activities of a type usually carried on in rural communities. . . . Subsidizing the manufacture of silk hosiery does not appear to come within such contemplated fields . .. [besides] giving rise to increased competition with cotton, the chief agricultural product of the South." With no high hopes, FSA planned to present "new evidence" to persuade Mr. Elliott that its silk-stocking project is legal...
...These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese and U. S. cotton textile men renewed their unique, two-year-old private trade pact...
...cotton textile industry two years ago noted with alarm that Japanese shipments of cotton textiles had grown from 1,115,000 square yards in 1933 to 155,000,000 in 1937. With a U. S. trade pact or a discriminating tariff impossible to arrange, Claudius Temple Murchison, president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, packed off to Japan with a delegation of businessmen. Somewhat to his own surprise he negotiated a private pact limiting imports from Japan to 255,000,000 yards for 1937 and 1938 (TIME, March 8, 1937). Last week, declaring the pact a great success, Dr. Murchison signed...