Cotton Plan Aims to Cut 11 Million Bale Surplus
Texas A and M Extension official explains the 1934 35 government cotton plan to reduce a large carry over while preserving farmers purchasing power. The plan uses a 4 cent per pound processing tax and parity payments to support farmers as acres are retired and production is restrained. County associations will organize to enforce contract terms and aid agents in signing up farmers.
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College Station
G. E. Adams
Texas A
M. College Extension Service
United States
Adams
Texas
Hall County
James A. Jackson
M. College
J. A. Whaley
Memphis
Frank Meacham
Turkey
Holt Russell
Estelline
Extension Service
Texas Cotton Farmers Target New Contracts After Plow-Up
Texas A and M College Extension Service staff say the state will sign up as many farmers for the new cotton contracts as joined the plow-up program last summer. Farmers credit the 1933 prosperity to the earlier campaign and plan to enroll broadly in the new plan.
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College Station
Texas
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Inventors Show Displays Rubber Shoestring Laces
In Minneapolis a Minnesota Inventors Show features items from rubber shoelaces that never need tying to a device making grass greener with lawn spray. Exhibits include a hair kink remover and a device to restore kink, a grapefruit plate with prongs, shock absorbers for beds, a valve toothpaste stopper and a combustion based pipe bowl to prevent soggy bottoms and wet heels.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Forward passer or foot ball blower
Lighthearted dialogue captures a student exchange about football roles with a joke that the speaker inflates or “blows up” the footballs. A playful glimpse into locker room humor.
Budget for New Deal Aims at Planned Social Order
Roosevelt proposes a reduced federal outlay and a 32 billion dollar public debt to fund economic stabilization. The plan seeks constructive use of borrowing, lower per capita cost, and government aided employment while advancing a “more abundant life” and a form of controlled capitalism.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Reed
Pennsylvania
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Administration
Roosevelt plans for immense borrowing and New Deal expansion
The piece argues President Roosevelt will push large government borrowings and spending with a pro New Deal outlook. It notes a Democratic majority, expected policy moves to reduce poverty through work, and a tentative view that the economy is turning up though monetary uncertainty remains.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Federal Re
Leonard Blue Ridge Highway Improvement Plan Adopted
Texas state highway commission in Austin approved a project to connect highway 78 with highway 160 near Blue Ridge. A $3,549 appropriation funds a lease on highway 78 from the Fannin County line to Blue Ridge, completing an all weather road from Blue Ridge to Leonard.
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Blue Ridge
State Highway Commission
Austin
Fannin County
Leonard
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Whitewright
Mangrum
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Westinghouse
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