Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when...
...referendums held under the new bill indicated that at least this part of its machinery was in good working order. Farmers in 20 States went to filling stations, schools, grange halls to cast ballots on whether or not the Department of Agriculture should impose quotas on 1938 crops of cotton and tobacco. Counted by AAA County Committees and forwarded to the Department of Agriculture ballots showed that of the 2,700,000 farmers eligible to vote, about 1,700,000 had done...
...Wallace quota on any crop can only be imposed if a two-thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
This year's cotton quota has already been set at 26,300,000 acres, to produce a 10,125,000 bale crop (8,621,000 under last year's). Dark tobacco quotas will be 145,000,000 Ibs., flue-cured tobacco 705,000,000. Fines for over-productive farmers, whether they voted for or against quotas, will be two cents a pound for cotton, 50% of the market price for tobacco. Said Administrator H. R. Tolley, "We consider the vote an overwhelming endorsement of the new farm program...
Jobs are also available in the 1938 Work Camps conducted by the American Friends Association in the Mississippi cotton belt, in the poverty stricken coal areas of Pennsylvania, or in the Tennessee Valley...