Identifier: literarydigest60newy (find matches)
Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ule time.The map will supplement General Pershings very brief ac-count and enable our readers to understand how well each unitaccomplished its task. To quote General Pershing: Our First Corps took Thiaucourt, while our Fourth Corpscurved back to the southwest through Xousard; the SecondColonial French Cori)s made the slight achauce required of iton very difficult ground, and the Fifth Corps took its threeridges. ... A rapid march liroiight reserve r(>pimcnts of a divisionof the Fifth Corps into VigiuuiUs in tlH> early morning, wliere itlinked up with patrols of our Fourth Corps, closing the salii-ntand forming a new line west of Thiaucourt to Vigneulles andbeyond Fresnes-i>n-Woe\Te. At tlie cost of only 7.(KK) <asual-ties, mostly light, we had taken 16,(MK) prisoners and ■143 guns,a great quantity of material, released the inhabitants of manyvillages from enemy domination, and establishtni our lines in aposition to threaten Metz. The Literary Digest for March 22, 1919 10
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20 The Literary Digest for March 22, 1919 THE SOUTH ON A COTTON STRIKE SILK AND SATINS will no longer be luxuries as comparedwith cotton when the price-raising and crop-reducingprogram decided upon by the cotton-prodi)cei:s of theSouth goes into effect. The campaign is formidable enough;every county in the cotton-growing States, it is reported, heldsafe-and-sane-cotton meetings in February to secure reduc-tion pledges from the farmers. Bankers and business menthroughout the South are said to be behind the farmers. Atthe recent cotton convention in New Orleans, the Governor ofLouisiana presided and former Governor Manning of SouthCarolinr^ presented the resolutions, which bid fair to tie up theconsumar of cotton in a knot, so far as prices are concerned,says a paper in the great cotton-mill region of Massachusetts.The plan is, in the words of leaders of the movement, for theSouthern cotton-growers, first, to hold their present crop untilthey can sell it for at least thirty-cents a poun

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