Word: lint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weeks ago, foreseeing a shortage in good grades of spot cotton, Tullis, Craig started to buy December contracts, which are contracts calling for delivery in that month. In the normal course of trading on a cotton futures market, little if any lint is actually delivered. Those who sold cotton short either as a hedge or as a speculation simply buy back their contracts, bringing everybody out even without the bother of handling the staple at all. Messrs. Tullis & Craig, however, demanded real cotton. This they had a perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade...
...Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co. Up to the very deadline last week it was hoped by others who were pinched that somehow, somewhere, Will Clayton might use his vast resources to extricate them from their fix. But in the end Mr. Clayton sent over some of his best lint, which Messrs. Tullis & Craig promptly sold at a handsome profit...
...coming for him. A tall, slender, dark-eyed girl, Kit runs away from home at 15, after her father reveals an unpaternal interest in her. She gets a job in a textile mill, learns fast. Kit is befriended by a hard, homely girl, feels humiliated by being called a "lint head" by the townspeople, is loved by a boy dying of tuberculosis. It is at this period of her life that she meets the young man who wants to be a horse. He has practiced until he can run on all fours and leap fences. As she watches...
...Lint Land. Before the Crop Board could be locked up for its secret ciphering last week, before field estimators and picked farmers could furnish the figures with which it arrived at its estimate, some 30,000,000 acres of farm land had to be plowed, harrowed and seeded in that area of the continental U. S. where the growing season from frost to frost is at least seven months. Planting started, as it does each season, in Southern Texas in late winter. From there it rolled north with the sun on an ever widening front until the last seed...
Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...