Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metres of cloth woven in seven Moscow mills which once belonged to Tsarist Millionaire Morozov, over 7,000,000 metres have had to be discarded as "spoiled and useless...
...sunset. There is nothing very startling about what goes on, but it all seems very pleasant. The cheerful natives, amazingly handsome, dressed for hot weather, have all the paraphernalia of civilization except machines. They spend the morning marketing, chatting, weaving, carving statues, attaching gold leaf to bolts of cloth, swimming, raising rice, flying kites with prodigious, sarcastic tails. Main event of a high-grade Bali day is a cremation, preceded by dances, bull races, prayers. Corpses of dead Balinese are placed in ornamental towers mounted on floats to be carried about the island. After a cremation, the ashes are scattered...
...British Empire." The debts are Britain's and she cannot pay them with someone else's gold. Nor can England pay in kind-America won't let her. Your tariff walls prevent such a course. In any case, according to the American theory, every yard of cloth or ton of steel imported means a lowering of the standard of living. This refusal would also apply to services-which could presumably be rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport and the like. Mr. Andrews refers to the British navy. This was built by British labour...
...will not strike anyone who handles it confidently-an explanation doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that the Indians have a potent secret antidote for snakebite. Others suggest that the snakes are goaded to strike at bits of cloth during their imprisonment in the kiva, so that their venom is all discharged by the day of the dance. Still others point out that the rattlesnake is no traveler, that the Hopi gather the same snakes year after year and these snakes are really friends of the Hopi...
...shame that 30,000,000 Indians don't wear shoes!" Thomas Bat'a had cried in Calcutta. Then & there he bought a factory site. "We will sell to the Indian at 30? a pair," he prophesied, "serviceable cloth shoes with rubber soles...