Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vast are the differences on each side of the color line. White-card holders, in addition to selling their cotton without undue complication, will receive a Government bounty of 2.4? a pound. But buyers of red-card cotton must note whether the farmer is selling cotton grown on acreage beyond an allotted quota. If so, the buyer must collect a 2-cent penalty tax on each pound bought...
Reason for the 1938 program and its attendant complexities was that cotton farmers last year cultivated 34,471,000 acres, grew the huge total of 18,945,022 bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began...
...years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...
...Predicted the smallest cotton acreage for harvest since 1900-26,339,000 acres. Prices at once jumped from 9.04? to 9.17? a lb. for spot cotton...
...Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks, when they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard of a white man who had killed 14 Negroes and never...