Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental swarm of little quarter-inch beetles crawled out of hibernation to meet the warming sun, to twitch and test the long, sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows...
...price of wheat touched the lowest levels on the present crop and cotton crashed to the worst prices since 1927. In wheat the situation seemed a natural one of supply and demand. In cotton the decline was somewhat justified by cold which is said to have killed the boll weevil in large areas. But what caused cotton to drop precipitately was apparently "an unfortunate misunderstanding." Briefly, the "unfortunate misunderstanding" seems to have taken place as follows...