Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed, resort business washed out. A naval bombing plane, rain-blinded, crashed in Connecticut with three fatalities. At Liberty, N. Y., 25,000 tenpins worth $1 each were swept away-along with a shed where they were stored-down...
...Workers' Education project educates workers in their spare time. Across the country 60,000 laborers attend classes before and after hours in mining camps, sugar-beet shacks, cotton warehouses, union halls, construction sheds. Last week 18 State supervisors of WPA-WE reported to Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the gnarls in Workers' Education...
...Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According...
...addition to the South's three great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...
...market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA, but wheat prices on exchanges promptly sagged as brokers figured the loan might actually turn out to be the maximum price, as occurred with last year's 9? cotton loans...