Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Songwriters Lee David & John Redmond.'who do the scores for Harlem's Cotton Club, completed a Big Apple song for Exclusive Publications, an enterprise of energetic Irving Mills. Originally intended for the Cotton Club, the song was released when the dance became popular sold 12,500 copies. Last month Songwriters Buddy Bernier & Bob Emmerich also did a Big Apple song, which sold 12,000 copies in the first ten days after Crawford Music Corp. published it. The Bernier-Emmerich tune reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra...
...volume of autumn steel business." Lumber output dropped more than seasonally, with orders last week running 20% less than for the same week last year. And commodity prices were down-winter wheat from a 1937 high of $1.29 to $1.02 a bu.; corn from $1.16 to 97? a bu.; cotton from nearly 14? to just above 9? a Ib.-the peg set by the Government's new cotton loan policy...
...plug some $100,000,000 worth of holes in the income tax law, the $87.662.634 Third Deficiency Bill. He also signed Congress' ''promissory note" pledging to make farm legislation the first order of business in the next session, in return for which he had agreed to cotton crop loans...
After the President's note, unusual in that it pointedly omitted to thank the Senate for its services, had been read, the motion to adjourn was offered and carried. Twenty-eight minutes later, at 7:23, the House, which had been wrangling over the cotton subsidy, likewise closed up and the 75th Congress' astonishing first session was over...
...bill to limit crop production, produce an "ever-normal granary." In return for a promise to grant loans to Southern cotton growers, both House and Senate promised to make this the first item of business in their next session...