Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the disputed 40,000 square miles is still mainly jungle, it could be cultivated, could produce spices, salt, rubber, cotton if Ecuador and Peru can ever decide which country owns which square miles...
...Cotton Mather's dead...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...
Chief significance of 11,121,000 bale crop is that: 1) the world will probably consume at least 600,000 bales of U. S. cotton above this year's production, thereby taking a good hunk out of the 7,100,000 bale carryover; 2) Commodity Credit Corp. which still holds 3,028,675 bales as security for loans to farmers can partly bail itself out*; 3) a price rise of $2.50 a bale will mean $28,000,000 more income for U. S. farmers; 4) many U. S. cotton mills will show good 'profits as a result...
...already sold over 2,000,000 bales bought in its 1934 cotton pool...