Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that the estimate for the 1922 cotton crop has been considerably reduced, cotton futures declined in active trading, again showing that the speculative markets have apparently overdiscounted future conditions. In the steel industry, however, no such let-up has come. Production is, if anything, increasing, prices generally are still rising, and premiums are reported for early deliveries, especially of sheet for automobile manufacturers. The larger mills are said to be declining additional business for the time being. New railroad equipment orders for 1923 are estimated as very large, comprising 6,000 engines, 150,000 new freight cars...
Cotton, after breaking through 31? to a new high record on the present movement, subsequently sold off under that figure upon anticipations of an increased crop in 1923. Meanwhile, published statistics are throwing more light upon the reason for cotton's recent extraordinary advance in price. Spinners' takings last week were 205,000 bales, compared with 184,000 bales for the same week in 1922; similar figures for the season are 9,012,000 bales this year as against 8,483,000 last year. While demand has thus been increasing, supply has been diminishing. The "visible supply" lost...
...good many of its episodes to cloud one's perception of the beauty underlying them. It is hard to read it through with a straight face. The Critics. Many Marriages appeared first in The Dial It was hailed by the extremely advanced as another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form its reception has been uneven. It is an easy book to rave over and an even easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking...
...bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
There have been plenty of scoffers to hint at ulterior motives behind the Secretary of State's resolution. The old insinuations again crop out; after holding off during the difficult years of reconstruction, while civilization was in agony, America now steps in comfortably to write the sign of the dollar across an exploited Europe...