Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chocolate cotton pickers from Riverside Plantation had come down to Vanceville to play the also-dark potato diggers of Sunny Side for the colored baseball championship of Bossier Parish...
...condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison...
...Scot MacDonald who retired to his country home at Lossiemouth and took a hands-off attitude fortnight ago, when half-a-million Lancashire cotton operatives struck (TIME, Aug. 12), thus crippling Britain's largest export industry...
...Bold Scot MacDonald who suddenly changed front, last week, ordered an airplane and flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...
...invented the cotton...