Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the gaming tables of lower Manhattan. The gamblers are U. S. traders. The stakes are the world's rich supplies of cotton and rubber, of cocoa and spices and coffee. Near Hanover Square are clustered Manhattan's famed commodity exchanges...
...industry, seeking only new fields for speculation. Such fears have postponed, perhaps indefinitely, plans for a jute and burlap exchange. But an exchange to deal in metals futures is scheduled to open about Nov. 1. And last week, at Albany, papers of incorporation were filed for the National Cotton Exchange, to compete with the 57-year-old New York Cotton Exchange...
...chemist's pride, in switching world commerce around by his inventions of synthetics for natural products, swelled last week when he read the news bulletin just published by the National Geographic Society. That bulletin was specific. From coal tar,* air-nitrogen, cotton, corn & wood, chemists have been making things from fertilizers to rayon cloth, from paint to pearls...
...first reading, this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...
...lords of steel and soap and cotton...