Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as we hold all the land between the railways the Japanese can get no taxes, no food supplies, no minerals, no cotton. They will have no profit to show for their expensive conquest...
...Japanese cannot starve us out of this area. We have eradicated 70% of the cotton crop and substituted wheat, and this has resulted in the biggest wheat crop that the province ever...
...tipsters (usually taking a cut of all profits, but not sharing losses); together the 16 controlled 300 accounts, and one of them had transactions in the first six months of 1937 totaling 39,000,000 bu. of wheat, 11,000,000 bu. of corn and 39,000 bales of cotton; 15 lost money for a majority of their clients, one was on relief, another had a string of gambling houses...
...meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post Office grey...
...some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum...