Excerpt from The Cotton Situation, Vol. 115: November-December 1946 Cotton prices in early December ose gradually from 30. 5 to about 33 cents per pound and on the lhth of the month were about 5 cents above the lowest point reached during the period of the market break beginning in late October. Price trends in November were gradually upward except for a decline of about l-l/2 cents which coincided with the coal strike. Despite the recovery, however the December'lh price'was about 6 cents per pound or 30 dollars per bale less that the peak reached in early Octooer. Early December prices are about 8 to 8 cents per pound higher compared with prices a year earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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