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...cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times, receive as much as a dollar...
...from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...country churches Mrs. Sloan approves garden flowers and even such wild growths as "soft brown cattails (shellacked to preserve their deep color), grasses and such delights as the brown cottony seed pods of the fireweed, the cloudy blue bayberry, or the brilliant scarlet berries of the black alder...
...moral restraint." As time passed a further objective appeared-to lead children into church membership. Today in the U. S., 21,038,526 persons attend Sunday School, under the guidance of 2,167,848 officers and teachers in 184,686 churches. Only 17 small denominations, such as the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, do not run Sunday Schools...
...every Moscovite knows the "success" of Comrade Stalin in dragooning peasants on to collective farms where they are at the mercy of the Soviet Power has vastly increased the ease of forced grain collections. That "ample stocks for seed and food are in the hands of the authorities" neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor anyone else denies. It is rather because they are in the State's hands that some 6,000,000 peasants starved in 1932-33, the State withholding tell-tale statistics until 1934 when they were no longer news...