Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pencil to Government expenses for publicity, such frills as an expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last November filled the TV A investigating committee with unflattering accounts of TVA accounting practices...
...proposal to impose compulsory marketing quotas on their crops for 1939. Result: 61.2% Yes for burley, 60.5% Yes for dark, both short of the two-thirds approval necessary for the quota. Since flue-cured tobacco growers and rice farmers turned down quotas last fortnight and cotton is the only major crop that has yet accepted one, for the next crop year AAA's score is one "victory," four "defeats." Result: an increase in the already flourishing crop of pre-Congress AAAttacks, AAAlibis (TIME...
...four laboratories to study new outlets for U. S. crops. Last week, after weeding through more than 200 applications and bruising susceptible Congressional feelings, Secretary Wallace located the laboratories, one in each major U. S. crop region: Northern (corn, wheat, agricultural wastes) at Peoria, Ill.; Southern (cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts) at New Orleans; Eastern (tobacco, milk products, apples, potatoes, vegetables) near Philadelphia; Western (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables, fruits) near San Francisco...
...farm organizations none is so potent as American Farm Bureau Federation, and of all farm leaders few are so influential as the Federation's burly president, Alabama Cotton Grower Edward Asbury O'Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales...
...political movements-but those who still clung to the principle of civil liberties could not accept it in detail. The South and Central American States were ready to trade their coffee, rubber, ores for U. S. money and machinery-but the U. S. could not take any of their cotton or much of their beef. That left the unrebuked dictatorships like Germany to continue bartering in South and Central America with aski marks...