Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harrows and fields being broken, plow horses streaking the countryside with new furrows, tractors barking and chattering with lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard plan of the past because...
...husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power by artificially raising the prices of cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, rice, hogs, sheep, cattle and dairy products to pre-War parity with industry.* Nothing short of the broadest and most flexible authority, he had testified, would suffice to solve the farm problem. After such a sweeping grant it was up to Congress and the country to trust...
...Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours...
Texas' Marvin Jones, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, refused to sponsor the Administration's measure because he objected to some of its price-raising machinery for wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn, rice, hogs, cattle, sheep, milk and milk products. "But," said he, "while this war is on, I'm going to follow the President. I don't think the bill can make things worse. God knows we all hope it will make them better...
...remains to be seen whether the Administration's efforts will have any effect on restoring farm prosperity. Unless nature or government succeeds in restricting next year's crops the farm surpluses bid fair to stay. Last week there were alarming reports of increases in tobacco acreage. ¶ Many railroads must soon face reorganization...