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...rough, roistering city, where the oldest and newest forces in the South seethed and mingled. Cotton still came to Memphis levees on high-stacked steamboats, but many a planter had moved to town to be a businessman. Memphis nights were noisy with roistering male voices and the jangle of sporting-house pianos. Gunmen, loggers, sunburned planters, rivermen from all the channels between St. Louis and New Orleans fought, gambled, drank and consorted with brigades of painted Memphis whores...
...made only brief trips away from Japan-though he was once a copra planter on Saipan and has made 14 trips to the South Seas-but his works have traveled far. Among U.S. collectors: Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, Edward G. Robinson...
Corn is planted (with a horse-drawn planter) about the second week in May. As soon as the green spikes pierce the black soil, it is cultivated with a rotary hoe. Dale Kuester claims that, when in form, he can hoe 80 acres between sunup and sundown. After three hoeings, there are two more complete cultivations with regular corn cultivators...
Cried Mississippi Planter Oscar Johnson, the Council's owlish president: "Cotton can defeat any competitor on today's horizon if it is given equality with that competitor in scientific support, sales pressure and production efficiency." Johnson called upon the raw cotton industry to contribute money and manpower for the attack. It was hinted that as much as $25,000,000 might be spent annually on research alone...
...where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...