Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nitrocellulose process for making rayon was patented in 1884 by Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, who dissolved nitrocellulose in an organic solvent, forced the solution through fine holes, finally obtaining long fibres which were spun into threads (Tubize). The viscose process (treating cotton with caustic soda and carbon disulphide) was patented eight years later by two U. S. chemists. Later a third method (little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?...
Grimly the cotton men passed a unanimous resolution, bound themselves to sell nothing more to Germany until their arrears are paid up and notified His Majesty's Government that their mills will stay closed indefinitely. Same day in Berlin that master bluffer of international finance. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and newly created ''Economic and Financial Tsar," suddenly issued a manifesto to the effect that "Germany, if necessary, can dispense with all raw material imports." This presumably was the opening move of Dr. Schacht, who always starts from zero, in a game to jockey the British cotton...
Chiang's tariff concussions go even further than to give Japan major advantages over other great exporters to China. They cut certain rates so low that Chinese owners of cotton mills, paper mills, breweries, coal yards and fish markets declared last week they could no longer compete with Japanese prices in depreciated yen, were threatened with ruin. By every post petitions poured in upon the Generalissimo and he received irate telegrams night...
...dollar wheat." Last week wheat was $1.15 and the new watchword was "dollar corn." Rubber, which sold as low as 3¢ per lb. in 1933, was up last week to a four-year high of 17¢. Silk on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange had the busiest day in months. Cotton hit 14¢ per lb. for the first time since 1930. With few exceptions the raw "things" which the U. S. finds essential to its well-being were in high speculative favor. The number of citizens eager to swap dollars for salable goods was growing at an astounding rate...
...Parliament adjourned last week President Runciman's efforts to stimulate Anglo-German trade received a sharp setback. A Lancashire textile delegation sent to Berlin under Sir George Holden with the cooperation of the Board of Trade reported most adversely on German credit. Promptly in Manchester the Empire's leading cotton spinners announced that they will sell no more yarn to Germany, that as a result they must throw out of work at least 10.000 skilled spinning operatives in Lancashire, 40,000 other Britons, directly or indirectly employed in cotton milling...