Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady of the picture," I don't know, but the cabin that is used, is probably inhabited by the Hoag boys for hunting, as they own the property now and live on a ranch on the southern hillside. I know Mrs. Hoag will be glad to give you very full and authentic information on the old days, when six-mule teams used to wind their way down those cliffs from Monterey, bringing a load of houseguests for a gay weekend...
...small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular conviction. Reporter Bill Brook helps him pin the crime on Hale. The evidence consists principally of a blood spot on Hale's coat, which might have come from a barber's cut. More threatening is a hot surge of Southern hatred. When Hale's wife (Gloria Dickson) gets a Northern detective and a crack Northern lawyer (Otto Kruger) to aid her husband, his doom is practically sealed...
...mechanical cotton picker. Most successful of such pickers is the machine devised by John D. and Mack Rust of Tennessee, social-minded brothers who are resolved to cushion the impact of the machine on Southern labor but are selling and demonstrating their pickers in Soviet Russia. After several demonstrations U. S. cotton men are still divided as to the Rust picker's practicability...
This was life-saving news to Southern cotton farmers, whose 1937 acreage the Crop Reporting Board has estimated at 34,192,000 acres with a probable yield of over 14,000,000 bales. For the marketing of such a crop, increased home consumption is nothing less than a necessity, because U. S. cotton exports have dropped steadily from an average of 8,300,000 bales a year between 1924 and 1929 to 6,000,000 bales last year and about 5,500,000 in the current cotton year. However, AAA short crops helped cut the annual carry-over from...
Garland Sevier Ferguson Jr., 59, a North Carolina Democrat who was appointed by Calvin Coolidge and reappointed by President Roosevelt though rated the most conservative member of the commission. Much of his legal experience was gained as a lawyer for Southern Ry. In the general division of FTC duties, tall, baldish, able Mr. Ferguson tends to trials and examinations...