Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the manufacture of cotton goods was a comparatively simple matter. Nearly every town of any importance had its red brick factory owned by a thrifty Yankee who combined the qualities of feudal lord, social mogul, town benefactor. His employees admired him, had simple wants, were content with frugal wages. Raw cotton from the slave states was cheap and plentiful. The New England mills had a virtual monopoly of U. S. textile manufactures. The thrifty Yankee prospered, passed his factory down from generation to generation. The Civil War upset many a factory...
Except for 1923, when eight billion square yards of cotton products were manufactured in the U. S. (two billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag...
Firms which have not sliced wages are notably the makers of fine draperies, bedspreads, laces, frills, etc., in New Bedford and North Adams, Mass., the vast Naumkeaz Steam Cotton Co. in Salem, Mass., and others in Rhode Island, Connecticut and middle Massachusetts. The woolen and silk mills, although in no booming condition, have not yet pared pay envelopes...
...University team, composed of R. B. Burnett ocC., No. 1, J. P. Cotton '29, No. 2, and F. A. Clark '29, back, has defeated to date the 110th Cavalry, the 101st Field Artillery, and the Cavalry Freebooters. The West Pointers should provide stiffer opposition...
Score, Harvard 18, Freebooters 7. Handicap, Harvard 5, Goals, Mandell 3, Burnett 4, Cotton 3, Clark 6, Ryder, Jones 2, Duncan (accident). Harvard's pony 2. Fouls, Duncan 2, Cotton, Clark. Referee, Sam Hopkins, Time, six five minute chukkers...