Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slight, bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...
...reporters. Last week several young golfers returning from last month's Ryder Cup matches in England (TIME, July 12) disregarded both rules. Loudest in their disparagement of both the Ryder Cup matches which Great Britain lost and the British Open Championship at Carnoustie which England's Henry Cotton won, were brash young...
Manero: "In my match, with Henry Cotton, I begged the gallery to give me room . . . they crowded me so closely and talked so much I couldn't hit the ball...
...nine Christopher is accused of trying to assassinate the infant Princess Victoria. The real gunmen are two Cumberland spies, one of them Christopher's father. Christopher runs away, is found by a peasant who sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother...
This was life-saving news to Southern cotton farmers, whose 1937 acreage the Crop Reporting Board has estimated at 34,192,000 acres with a probable yield of over 14,000,000 bales. For the marketing of such a crop, increased home consumption is nothing less than a necessity, because U. S. cotton exports have dropped steadily from an average of 8,300,000 bales a year between 1924 and 1929 to 6,000,000 bales last year and about 5,500,000 in the current cotton year. However, AAA short crops helped cut the annual carry-over from...