Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, to give the Department of Agriculture power to regulate wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco crop quotas (TIME...
...into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when it reaches normal. For cotton and tobacco farmers, the bill provided both penalties for overproduction and bounty payments to encourage them to divert unneeded land to other uses; for rice, quotas were set on the basis of domestic consumption...
...cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill of its own. This too was expected to omit the disagreeable and controversial question of raising...
Died. Howard Earle Coffin, 64, cotton textile manufacturer, boomer of Georgia coastal resorts, onetime vice president of Hudson Motor Car Co. and member of the Wartime U. S. Aircraft Production Board; when a loaded rifle he was appar-ently cleaning for a deer-hunt went off; at Sea Island Beach...
...Slavic opus. In the Bacchanalian Children of the Earth (music by Negro "Composer Reginald Forsythe) the attempted emulsion of ballet technique and hot-cha failed to mix. St. Louis Women (music by famed W. C. Handy) was straight hot-cha, and might have been done better at the Cotton Club. Encouraged by first-nighters' applause, softspoken, boyish-faced von Grona and his blonde wife Leni decided that their Negro ballet had a great future...