Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South was being asked to destroy about 5,000,000 bales of its cotton on the chance the other 10,000,000 would bring in more money. At $30 per bale this was equivalent to plowing $150,000,000 in good money back into the ground. As an inducement Chairman Stone promised that, if ten major cotton States agreed to the plan, the Board would withhold from the market its own 1.300,000 bales and get its co-operatives to withhold their 2,000,000 bales, making a total reduction of 8,000,000 bales in the 1931 market...
...When Chairman Stone construed this as an acceptance of his "one-out-of-three" program, the Texas Governor hastened to explain that he favored no specific plan, that it would be "just as reasonable to ask the Farm Board to burn its cotton up as to ask farmers to destroy their crop...
...Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board to buy up half of the 1931 crop in return for a pledge that the South will plant no cotton in 1932. Within 48 hours the Board...
...wanted to destroy the painting or at least throw it into the ash can but was told the painting was government property and I would be arrested for destruction thereof if I destroyed the painting...
...rights to a picture called Whom the Gods Would Destroy for $4,250, sold shares in it for $42.50 to 99 Wall Street men. He used their backing when he was head of World Film Corp. which had an elephant for a trademark. When the stockholders in World Film, conservative bankers who never understood the Selznick to make pictures starring Clara Kimball Young...