Word: calicoes
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...Cotton Textile Institute began selling cotton not to the thrifty but to the smart. Cotton makers concentrated on attractive weaves, chic modes. The spice of novelty was introduced through beach pyjamas, overalls, suntan frocks, quilted coats, printed slippers. Well did the cotton man's calico, gingham, piques, chambrays, gabardines lend themselves to these novelties. During the 1928-29 Palm Beach season cotton was an outstanding success. During the present season cotton fabrics have been conspicuously successful. Once sold to the smart world, it was certain that cotton would be sold to all the world. When sales are made...
...industrial giant, nourished during the next four years by a 24-billion-dollar investment in factory equipment. Of this huge sum 78% is being spent on machines to make machines, only 22% on the manufacture of goods for direct consumption. Therefore Soviet stores have little goods on their shelves. Calico is as expensive as silk. Shiny new boots, seal of a Russian peasant's prosperity, are hard to find, harder...
Casein is a proteid of the nucleoalbumin group, existing in the milk of various animals, and an important by-product in the cheese industry. Pure casein is a white crumbling acid substance, used as a substitute for albumin in calico printing and for glue in cements. Last week members of the House Ways and Means Committee learned about casein and about many another product. For. to the committee came farmers, manufacturers, representatives of many U. S. industries...
Composer Emmett never regarded "Dixie" as his ablest creation. He personally liked better his now-forgotten "Old Dan Tucker." Emmett, runaway son of a blacksmith, sang and banjoed in the country's earliest traveling minstrel quartets, barnstorming from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years...
...SCHOOL days, SCHOOL days, Dear old GOLDen RULE days! READing, and WRITing and 'RITHmetic, TAUGHT to the TUNE of the HICK'ry stick ! You were my QUEEN in CALico, I was your BASHful BAREfoot beau; You wrote on my slate "I LOVE you, Jo." When WE were a COUPle o' KIDS, kids, kids, kids...