Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the decision was the first by which NLRB certified an all-inclusive bargaining agency for a whole area, employers the country over wondered whether, for example, the Cotton-Textile Institute might some day be compelled to deal for all its members, unionized and nonunionized, with C. I. O.'s Textile Workers Organizing Committee; or the American Iron and Steel Institute, including President Tom Girdler's non-union Republic Steel Corp., with Steel Workers Organizing Committee. NLRB spokesmen declared the West Coast situation was unique, said no such precedent had been established...
...Germany held third place in exports to Brazil, U. S. first, Great Britain second. That year Nazi barter economics started in earnest in Brazil. Germany bartered for Brazilian cotton, coffee, cocoa, gave in return machinery, iron and steel, manufactured products. In 1936 Germany rose quickly to first place as Brazilian exporter, held it through...
...this year German exports to Brazil began to decline, U. S. exports to rise. By treaty a quota is placed on the amount of some products Germany can buy in Brazil with the "compensated" marks. Early this year she used up all the compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would be forced...
...Cotton. Although U. S. cotton growers planted only 28,000,000 acres this year, compared with 34,000,000 in 1937, they are expected to harvest a bumper crop of some 13,000,000 bales and already have a carryover of nearly that much. Last fortnight cotton prices slumped to all-time lows, since then have partially recovered- mainly on rumors of crop-damage from heavy rains in the cotton belt, minor floods in the dust bowl. Last week, spot cotton in New Orleans sold for 8.34? a lb. above the price the week before, but well below...
...Paralyzed when a bale of cotton falls on him. a young sharecropper broods over his wife working in his place. When the plantation owner refuses to advance them two pounds of fat-bacon until the end of the week, he broods over a plan to cut off his numb, useless legs and eat them...