Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the chaos that is cotton the Federal Farm Board, driven to desperation by the failure of its other relief schemes, tossed a startling proposal. It was: Let the South plow under one-third of its cotton crop. The idea was not new. It had been suggested and summarily dismissed at a cotton conference at Austin, Tex. fortnight ago. Stocky little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi had revamped it into a suggestion that planters simply abandon one out of every three rows in the fields. Within 24 hours the Farm Board had filched the Bilbo idea (without credit...
...South was being asked to destroy about 5,000,000 bales of its cotton on the chance the other 10,000,000 would bring in more money. At $30 per bale this was equivalent to plowing $150,000,000 in good money back into the ground. As an inducement Chairman Stone promised that, if ten major cotton States agreed to the plan, the Board would withhold from the market its own 1.300,000 bales and get its co-operatives to withhold their 2,000,000 bales, making a total reduction of 8,000,000 bales in the 1931 market...
...their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay and not bound by the injunction against Texas, Governor Murray fortnight ago ordered his highway workers to clear away the free bridge's barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your jurisdiction beyond all reason." Replied Governor Murray: "I bow to your authority over the State of Texas. You could probably muster more manpower than...
Last week Publisher Delacorte and Editor Anthony announced Ballyhoo, a magazine which will not solicit advertising. It will appear on newsstands July 1 on a tentative fortnightly schedule. Editor Anthony, with free rein to be funny as he can, promised to plow the allegedly virgin field of advertising as a source of humor. (His announcement: "Read a FRESH magazine! All our editors are CELLOPHANE WRAPPED...
Last week the house of Curtis began to do something which other publishers had been hoping and predicting for months that Curtis would do -plow in some of the profits of former years to bring greenness back to the drab winter fields of 1930-31. With the approval of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and Editor George Horace Lorimer, Mr. Healy accepted the services of President Arthur H. Kudner of Erwin, Wasey & Co., the man and agency who won a 1930 Bok Award for their post-crash slogan: "All right, Mister, now that the headache's over...