Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotton. "14,915,000 bales . . . 14,478,000 last year. . . . For the larger crop, producers received a lower price per pound...
Livestock. "Current year has been profitable. . . . Fewer cattle and hogs slaughtered . . . higher prices...
...Last year 279,678 immigrant and 199,649 nonimmigrant (visiting) aliens were admitted to the U. S. Europe furnished 158,598 permanent immigrants, New World countries 116,177. Asia 3,758. Chief sources were Canada (64,440), Germany (46,751), Mexico (40,154), Great Britain...
...Last year 224,728 aliens were naturalized, principally Italians (44,843), Polish (31,801), Russians (18,291), Germans (16,700), Irish (13,162). Secretary Davis regretted that "a considerable part" of them sought and obtained citizenship solely as a means of bringing their wives and children to the U. S. outside the quota...
Last week to the House of Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...