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...noon sharp, Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the figures flashed to the waiting cotton world. It was the Government's guess, the best to be had, that this season's crop in the biggest cotton land in the world would be 12,481,000 bales of about 500 Ib. each.* Last year the crop was 10,638,000 bales. The estimate was a little higher than expected, although Clinton T. Revere, famed cotton expert for the Manhattan firm of Munds, Winslow & Potter, scored a bull's-eye with a private estimate of 12,498,000 bales, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton & King | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...board the Manhattan were nine tons of milk, 1,600 Ib. of peanut brittle. Athletes complained about their food the first day out, got permission to drink & smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: En Route | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Born. To Carnation Ormsby Butter King, 9. world champion milk cow, who last year produced 38,000 Ib. of milk, 1,750 Ib. of butter (TIME, Feb. 24); and Sir Inka May; mixed twins, their third set; at Carnation Farm, near Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Signing of the measure last week passed unnoticed by the commodity markets affected. Indeed, cotton went above 12? per Ib. for the first time since last January; wheat closed the week with a 6? gain at 94? per bu. President Robert P. Boylan of the Chicago Board of Trade diplomatically announced: "Directors of the Board of Trade have no reason to anticipate other than a fair and reasonable administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities Controlled | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored connection with spiced meats. Kernel of the campaign was Gobel's offer to donate a part of each sale to some worthy anti-Prohibition organization. Gobel's sausage sales jumped from 21,000 Ib. per week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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