Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge's fashion lecture before the National Cotton Manufacturer Association, treats a subject in which he is an undoubted authority. The President in his own quiet way has long been a critic of woman's dress. For hours he has stood on Pennsylvania Avenue watching the well-dressed ladies of Washington and remarking occasionally to the ever-present Dawes that style aren't what they used to be in the old days in Vermont an observation as subtle as it is clever...
...with humanitarians). Presumably, the luncheon was entirely vegetarian. It was given in honor of Mrs. Fiske because, during the last 25 of her 60 years of life, she has devoted herself to the cause of suffering beasts. She has worn no furs, no feathers; her stage ermine has been cotton batting; no flesh has she eaten. She spoke of our responsibility toward our dumb fellow creatures, which civilization has met "without intelligence, without justice and without mercy...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...Artificial silk is made either of wood pulp or of linters (the tiny ends of cotton formerly wasted). The manufacturers of artificial silk have united on Rayon as a general trade name for the product...
With the passing of the "Cotton Belt" into the control of the Rock Island Road ends the battle of the old giants. The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, known as the "Cotton Belt", was the last trace of the great steel network, which Jay Gould conceived and created, still to remain in the hands of his family. Now Edwin Gould without fuss or ceremony relinquishes...