Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton picker ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...that irrepressible discontent Sam Adams 1740, as well as the one of John Hancock lent by the City of Boston. Hancock was treasurer of the College from 1773-1779 while being engaged in the many patriotic duties for which he is better known. Other pictures are of Cotton and Increase Mather, of Sir Henry Vane, of Governor John Endecott, and of Jeremiah Dummer, Jr. The only modern note injected into the exhibition is the famous Charles Hopkinson life portrait of the late Charles W. Eliot...
...thing of which there was no doubt last week was that the cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists...
...experts in Boston carefully lifted them from their cotton padded cradles last week, Museum authorities cried their delight over the following objects...
Huge along the Merrimack River banks at Manchester, N. H., the biggest cotton textile mill in the U. S., silent since last September, was ordered liquidated in July (TIME, Aug. 3). Sale of the fixed assets of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., which once employed 18,000 Manchester workers, was set for mid-October and notices of the auction went up on Amoskeag's long string of buildings. Last week these notices were taken down amid more whoops of civic satisfaction than Manchester had heard for months. From the hazards of auction sale and the hands of Boston trustees, the property...