Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest pressure upon the pound sterling in foreign exchange markets always comes in the autumn. During the fall season, the British regularly purchase large amounts of our cereals and cotton, and in consequence are forced to make heavy payments to the U. S. Even before the War, in the absence of other offsetting factors, sterling tended to sag in terms of U. S. dollars...
...axiom used to be that there were only three important textile fibres-wool, cotton and silk. Since the War, the new artificial fibre "rayon" has forged ahead so rapidly that it has already passed silk in point of production, and now looms as a dangerous competitor to wool and cotton. In 1924, world output of cotton was 9,000 million pounds; of wool, 2,600 million pounds; of rayon, between 100 and 125 million pounds. Rayon production for 1925 is estimated at 150 to 200 million pounds, with steady growth ahead...
Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...
...manifesto, issued by the Professors of the National University of Peking, laid the cause of the anti-alien agitation to the British, whom they charged with wantonly shooting innocent boy and girl students who were parading in protest against the conviction of Chinese strikers in Japanese cotton-factories (TIME, June 15). The British contended that the students and their sympathizers were shot after warning when they attacked the Interrational Police Force at Shanghai. The Peking Foreign Office, while charging all the foreign Powers with responsibility for the shootings which began the trouble, reject the British contention. John A. Brailsford, correspondent...
Shanghai. Chinese workers in a Japanese cotton mill at Shanghai went on strike, as had their countrymen in Japanese employ at Tsingtao (TIME, June 8). Court proceedings against the ringleaders were taken, convictions obtained...