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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government would then own outright loan stocks which cost it about 8.5? a pound. At that price, the world market would not absorb it. In order to sell it, let the Government offer its cotton to exporters at about 8.5?, pay them a bounty of from 2? to 3? a pound for as much as they can sell abroad. Result: exporters could sell cotton abroad at about 6½? and turn a profit...
...Foreign manufacturers would then pay less for raw cotton than U. S. manufacturers. So let import quotas be imposed on textiles to protect the home market, and offer further subsidies to domestic manufacturers to help them compete in foreign markets...
...from the Senate Cotton bloc. South Carolina's Purge-proof Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had another solution : to give farmers parity payments instead of loans after the present crop season, release the Government's holdings in 1940. And Alabama's John Bankhead had still another: let farmers buy back their hocked cotton for 3? a pound, sell it at a quick profit, promise to reduce their acreage correspondingly...
Poland's hour of unequal struggle with the Nazi giant seemed at hand. Poland with a bigger population (34,000,000), bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...
...bulging, well-documented Franco index (said to contain some 2,000,000 names) was being annotated from the personal memories of the Fifth Column. Moreover, a large portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records...