Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting...
...Ward) 5,000 George Monroe Moffett (Corn Products) 5,000 Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...water. He at once experimented in his laboratory with wet salt dressings, found the benefits to his hands real. Pacific Ocean water seemed to do him more good than Atlantic water, which is less salty. "Now," wrote he last week. "I frequently go to sleep with a pair of cotton gloves on my hands, with a little extra padding over the back and fingers, soaked with either sea water or normal saline solution...
...pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
East v. West Crack players selected from Western and Eastern college teams played the tenth annual all-star benefit game at San Francisco. Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton's 72-yd. run to a touchdown was the most spectacular play of the game. Outplayed in the first half. East came back gamely but not quite enough in the second. West 19, East...