Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiptop. Ethiopian "bandits" go on "murdering" generals and bishops, The road-building fever has suddenly abated, throwing out of work 15,000 whites in a land of guerillas and flies, Africa will fix the white intruders and take care of her own in the long run. The cotton of Lake Tana has too short a fibre; the coffee of Harar costs more than Brazil; and it seems that King Tut and his gang sifted every grain of gold out of Ethiopia...
...clothing business, as in the wheat business, the cotton business, and many another business, a surplus of products has piled up. In New York, for example, there are 200,000 unsold men's garments on the manufacturers' shelves. Until these surpluses are sold, explained Mr. Hillman, his Amalgamated Clothing Workers will not get much work...
...Government can spend tens of millions taking surplus cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, turpentine, etc., etc., off the market, why cannot it take off surplus garments? Especially when perhaps 17.000,000 citizens on Relief need clothes? Why shouldn't WPA buy $10,000,000 worth of men's and boys' cheap suits, distribute them to the needy and get Amalgamated Clothing Workers back to work, 30,000 or 40,000 of them in New York City alone...
...control problem beside which reducing next year's wheat acreage would be child's play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile mills. But so far. Franklin Roosevelt has resisted every pressure for subsidizing labor through industry...
...failure to service its sizable debt. Sweden and Finland are the only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo...