Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jefferson used to be the first city in Texas. Standing on the shore of Big Cypress Bayou, 20 miles from the Louisiana line, busy Jefferson shipped cotton, flour, pork, wool, hides, beeves and beeswax over the then navigable bayou waters to Caddo Lake, thence down the Red River to the Mississippi, New Orleans and the sea. During Reconstruction and after, Jefferson sheltered some 35,000 folk, their bustling business centring around the city's slave-built courthouse and its mile of docks...
...last several years we have been treated to the spectacle of the domestic refiners masquerading as farmers and trying to hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have no more to do with production than laundrymen have to do with cotton planting,'' cried Chocolateer Staples. "For the domestic refiners to dramatize themselves as doughty defenders of the American sugar bowl is child's play. Mr. Babst, head of the largest American refinery concern, complains about a loophole in the tariff. It is also a loophole through which the American...
...emotional actuality the horrors of those ignorant days. The author's faithful adherence to facts which could have been accumulated only by extensive research into the Archives of Salem and Boston brings to the reading public much that is actually biographical about the lives of such men as Cotton and Increase Mather, Samuel Parris, Goody Bishop, Stoughton, Phips, and other figures of Massachusetts' early history...
Historical figures and events are described with the greatest possible fidelity to the facts. Cotton Mather, the austere and prejudiced young minister from Boston, appears at first as a wholly detestable figure in the book, but upon consideration we realize that his closed mind was no different from the of almost every citizen of Salem. Samuel Parris, whose interest in the conviction of several of the witches was more than a religious one, Nathaniel Saltonsall, the only man in Salem who had the strength to stand up and refuse to assist at the trials, and many others remain...
...cash & carry basis. As soon as the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, no goods consigned to belligerents could leave U. S. ports until the buyers had acquired full title to them. At his discretion the President could name war-useful materials other than munitions (cotton, steel, copper, oil), which U. S. ships would be forbidden to carry even for cash...