Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio, photography, motion pictures, phonographs; 3) POWER: steam, electricity, illumination; 4) EXPLOITING RESOURCES : iron and steel, copper and "nobler metals," oil, coal, lumbering, cotton, agriculture; 5) LABOR SAVING DEVICES: automatic tools, pneumatic devices, sewing machines, shoemaking machines...
...rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California-had made a profuse but neat collection of tales, poems and tag-end tid-bits from great writers of all ages. Pages of parallel quotations were entitled Some Women I Have Met and How Men Make...
Truth-in-Fabric. Passage of the proposed bill which would require the labeling of wool fabrics with a statement of the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, linen, silk which each contains...
Production of cotton is more and more moving westward into the southwest; already Texas is overwhelmingly the leading cotton-producing state. Chicago brokers claim that the cotton market should accordingly move westward to Chicago. Yet the Chicago, like the New York, cotton market will presumably handle little actual cotton, and be primarily a "hedging" market in cotton contracts. Under these circumstances, nearness to the cotton fields is of minor importance...
...moving from Chicago into Canada, despite the unusual Chicago activity this year. The cereal and meat business is already hag-ridden by Government interference and agricultural cooperation. The waning business on the Chicago Board in cereals and provisions may thus be supplemented by the newly undertaken business in cotton...