Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wage increases already granted to 50,000 woolen mill operatives in New England were followed by advances of 12½% to some 25,000 cotton mill workers. These advances marked the first action by the cotton manufacturing interests to meet the higher wage levels set by the woolen mills throughout all the northern textile centers. When the general advance in wages in New England is completed it will affect about 250,000 workers...
Argentina: The omnifarious, omnipresent activities of Herr Hugo Stinnes have reached the Argentine, where the German industrial magnate has bought large tracts of land, primarily for cotton growing. Preparations have begun for its cultivation, and it is believed that industrial enterprises for manufacturing cotton products will also be established...
Despite the fact that the estimate for the 1922 cotton crop has been considerably reduced, cotton futures declined in active trading, again showing that the speculative markets have apparently overdiscounted future conditions. In the steel industry, however, no such let-up has come. Production is, if anything, increasing, prices generally are still rising, and premiums are reported for early deliveries, especially of sheet for automobile manufacturers. The larger mills are said to be declining additional business for the time being. New railroad equipment orders for 1923 are estimated as very large, comprising 6,000 engines, 150,000 new freight cars...
...colleges except Emmanuel painted their buildings, and re-gravelled their walks in his honor. In spite of this cordial reception the king issued orders that no one should receive a degree until he had signed the three. Articles of the High Church doctrine. How John Harvard, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker and other stalwart dissenters reconciled themselves to this performance might be an interesting story Probably they had their fingers crossed when they signed...
...nearest cotton futures have fluctuated around the high level of 31? recently established, with speculative dips and spurts of small scope. The Census Bureau's report of domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River...