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Word: cottone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clothing. Larger quantities soon of popular-priced cotton dresses and children's items. Much larger quantities of cottons over the next three months, and of wools over the next four months. Worsteds may not be plentiful until spring. Nylons (but not plentifully) by Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: Fill 'er Up | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...billion yards of cotton textiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Winner | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...More than 75% of its orders for cotton and wool textiles, leather, lumber, shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECONVERSION: Facts & Figures, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...effect on her as it had on our South in the War between the States. The South was not industrialized, as China is not industrialized. The South had to get supplies and equipment and machinery and munitions from abroad, just as China did. The South had to sell its cotton and other products abroad in order to get foreign exchange to keep its currency stable, just as China did. When the blockade shut off trade the South had to resort to the printing press and inflation resulted. It was this economic breakdown and lack of supplies as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OUR ALLY CHINA | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...great standbys of the British export trade have always been coal and textiles. British coal is now fabulously expensive and in critically short supply. Some of the textile industries, notably cotton, are experiencing great difficulty. ... No part of the 50% increase can be looked for in these two directions. ... If anyone, after examining the prospects industry by industry, is confident that such an increase in sales can be achieved, he has yet to be heard from in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hustle by Britain | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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