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...South was producing about 4,300,000 bales per year.* In 40 years the production had more than doubled. In 1914 the 15 cotton States of the Union brought forth an all-time record crop of 16,000,000 bales?and the South almost went bankrupt when the outbreak of the War blocked export. In 1892 Boll Weevil had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. The spreading infestation over-took expanding cotton production after 1914, reduced the 1921 crop to the smallest (8,000,000 bales) in a quarter-century. But planters learned how to fight this pest, increased their...
...Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and which he made one of the great critical journals of all times. He returned to the U. S. at the outbreak of the War, which he loudly and persistently damned. A badly dressed little man with a Hohenzollern mustache and a bawdy tongue, he found little to praise in America: "Oh, I say, what a dreadful country! What dreadful people! I say, Nellie, bring out the whisky." He edited Pearson...
...need for commanders with stamina and executive experience in a degree comparable to the present masters of ocean liners is of paramount importance. . . ." Commander of the DO-X on her arrival last week was 43-year-old Captain Fritz W. Hammer. He had been flying three years at the outbreak of the War. in which he fought in German navy planes, was several times wounded. In 1919 he helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity with South American Airways, caused the Dornier company...
...week's end warfare had quieted enough for Gerardo Machado' to return to Havana with his chief of staff and right-hand man General Alberto Herrera, the man who more than any other squashed the rebellion. Havana police were on their toes to prevent an outbreak from rebellious students...
...week most of Tallapoosa's Negro population had moved to neighboring counties. Still uncaught was the Red black from Chattanooga who had incited the outbreak...