Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world market, but the stiffest competitor is Brazil. Grown on abandoned coffee plantation acreage and tended by cheap Indian labor, 448,000 bales of cotton were produced by Brazil in 1932-33. This year's output is estimated at 1,591,000 bales. Price: 4½? a Ib...
...years before the cotton gin was invented the annual U. S. crop was 2,000,000 Ib. or 4,000 modern bales. Eight years after, the crop was 96,000 bales. By 1835 it was more than a million bales and by 1840 it had reached two million. For this sweeping upsurge the cotton gin could not take all the credit. Carding and spinning machines were developed, looms were fashioned better, railroad transport made its appearance. For 20 years the cotton crop has fluctuated around 15,000,000 bales, is now being held down to about 12,000,000 bales...
...today the cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times, receive as much as a dollar...
...season and put into production next year. Probable price: $995 f. o. b. factory. Estimated operation cost per acre of cotton (including repairs, fuel, labor, interest): 98?. Planters have declared that with such machines they could grow cotton at a profit even if the price dropped below 5?per Ib...
...Willow Springs, III, Mrs. Ralph Hoover divorced her husband and at the same time got free advertising for a mineral spring she owns by testifying that her husband lost interest in her when, by drinking her own spring water she reduced her weight from 218 to 129 Ib. Said she: "He wanted me to get back my mosque proportions...