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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-16 The government did its best, but the efforts came to nothing, for the government was harried by many things. Bruce 2024-12-10 0111 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:03
Chapter-16 In those early days of 1864, no newspaper could be opened that did not carry scathing editorials denouncing the speculators as vultures and bloodsucking leeches and calling upon the government to put them down with a hard hand. Bruce 2024-12-10 0116 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:03
Chapter-16 As food and clothing grew scarcer and prices rose higher and higher, the public outcry against the speculators grew louder and more venomous. Bruce 2024-12-10 0108 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:03
Chapter-16 It was a situation made to order for speculators and profiteers, and men were not lacking to take advantage of it. Bruce 2024-12-10 0113 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:03
Chapter-16 And the agricultural South, waging war with the industrial North, was needing so many things now, things it had never thought of buying in times of peace. Bruce 2024-12-10 0124 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:02
Chapter-16 With the blockade closing tighter and tighter, there was no way to get the South's money crop to its market in England, no way to bring in the necessaries which cotton money had brought in years gone by. Bruce 2024-12-10 0115 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:02
Chapter-16 Throughout the South, most of the cotton planters were in the same fix. Bruce 2024-12-10 0109 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:02
Chapter-16 Gerald had changed from a wealthy man to a man who was wondering how he would feed his family and his negroes through the winter. Bruce 2024-12-10 0115 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:02
Chapter-16 In Liverpool it would bring one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but there was no hope of getting it to Liverpool. Bruce 2024-12-10 0114 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:02
Chapter-16 Gerald O'Hara had three years' crops of cotton stored under the shed near the gin house at Tara, but little good it did him. Bruce 2024-12-10 0110 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:01
Chapter-16 The South had always lived by selling cotton and buying the things it did not produce, but now it could neither sell nor buy. Bruce 2024-12-10 0120 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:01
Chapter-16 The Yankee gunboats had tightened the mesh at the ports and very few ships were now able to slip past the blockade. Bruce 2024-12-10 0117 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:01
Chapter-16 The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it. Bruce 2024-12-10 0112 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:01
Chapter-16 The soles were made of wood. Bruce 2024-12-10 0123 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 Ladies now wore gaiters made of their old wool shawls and cut-up carpets. Bruce 2024-12-10 0114 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 Shoes cost from two hundred to eight hundred dollars a pair, depending on whether they were made of cardboard or real leather. Bruce 2024-12-10 0106 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 Warm clothing, when it was obtainable at all, had risen to such prohibitive prices that Atlanta ladies were lining their old dresses with rags and reinforcing them with newspapers to keep out the wind. Bruce 2024-12-10 0130 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound. Bruce 2024-12-10 0111 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 With the new fall of currency, prices soared again. Bruce 2024-12-10 0145 Bruce 2024-12-10 09:00
Chapter-16 There were thousands of able-bodied men in the state troops for whom the army was frantic, but the government pleaded for them in vain. Bruce 2024-12-10 0105 Bruce 2024-12-10 08:59
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