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...cotton processing tax as AAA later imposed. He declared : "The extensive price increases necessitated by the tax will decrease the consumption of cotton and cause widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6¢ to 92 ½ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2¢ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour. The price of cotton print goods followed the trend of costs by doubling from March to September...
...tender and so succulent are these great green fruit that he has them brought by automobile lest they be damaged traveling by rail. Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each...
...this week the Dionne quintuplets were three months old. All of them were ready to change their diet from "mother's milk," shipped from Montreal and Toronto, to modified cow's milk. Only Emilie and Marie, the two smallest, remained in incubators. All five totaled 31 Ib. 8-oz., more than three times the 10 Ib. ½-oz. of their first official weight. Almost finished was the special house, opposite the Dionne homestead, in which they will spend their first icy winter as guests of the Canadian Government...
...More than one-third of Nickel's nickel is used to toughen steel, 20% going indirectly into automobiles alone. But a 10,000-ton cruiser needs about 50 tons of nickel, a French 75-mm. field gun about 50 Ib...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...