cotton-picking

Picking up cans and bags out of the bin and throwing them back, over and over.

This would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.

Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.

She had forced herself to eat most of her soup, and now she was picking the flaky bits of a court bouillon with her fork.

When in the city they wore a rough felt conical hat and dark blue cotton robe.

There was no finery in her wardrobe, a few neat cotton gowns for summer wear, and homespun for the winter—that was all.