Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dallas' Cotton Bowl: Rice v. Colorado University...
...Senate. What ended the filibuster about anti-lynching-which had served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly...
...complexity such that neither the bill's sponsors nor the Committee's Chairman could explain to their colleagues exactly what the farm bill's 97 pages were all about. High point of futility in the week's debate was reached in an exchange between "Cotton Ed" Smith and Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg. To a Vandenberg inquiry as to how much it would cost the Government to pay farmers the benefits proposed by the bill, and where the money was to come from, Senator Smith replied that "an effort to benefit agriculture ought...
...that Tokyo and Moscow continue quietly negotiating renewal of the treaty permitting Japanese to fish in Soviet waters. So vital is this to Japanese economy that experts believe Stalin could hurt Japan almost as much by canceling the fishing treaty as U. S. we len could by switching to cotton stockings...
...Boston wool market was catch-as-catch-can. Buyers went west, bought up raw wool, carried it back to Boston warehouses whence it was sold to mills. In 1931, however, a group of woolmen founded a wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began to bleat that the wool market is largely to blame...