Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire's great industries, as everyone knows, are textiles (notably the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, Nashua Manufacturing Co. of Nashua, biggest world producers of blankets), and famed Indian Head cloth; shoes (International Shoe Co., Manchester; J. F. McElwain Co. of Nashua, makers of Tom McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness...
...wages paid in cloth...
Unlike other hangmen, the Hungarian takes his place at the head of the person he is hanging, holds a cloth over the face, keeps turning the head slightly from side to side until strangulation is complete...
...Indian National Congress maintained its grip on the entire native market for foreign cloth in Bombay (several hundred shops), which has been closed for six months. Nevertheless Bombay (chief commercial city) and Bombay Presidency are not India, and imports to the entire continent fell only 25% during the first eight months of 1930. Mr. Gandhi's boycott is credited with reducing imports (i. e., sales by Britain) 5%, the rest of the decline, 20%, being charged to "Depres-sion...
...separated by Armand's doting father whereupon Marguerite dies of consumption. But most of the detail has been revamped, modernized. Important to the plot is the repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos...