Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhandled. Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested...
Slumped across a table in the same British cotton mill the next night, the body of Mill-Employe Hector McAllister was found. Since there were no marks of violence, British suspected he had been poisoned...
...whom had been kicked out of or resigned from Florida's Rollins College (TIME, Sept. 4, 1933)-Most notable was Classics Professor John Andrews Rice, brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte and a nephew of South Carolina's U. S. Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith (see p. 15). John Rice was fired by Rollins' President Hamilton Holt because he had cried loudly that Rollins, for all its progressive claims, was full of bunk. To start a bunkless college, Rice and his followers went to the place where the word came from-North...
...Matched, two-piece cotton slack suits, now considered acceptable only as "extreme negligee" for beach wear, to sell at around $5 per suit...
Commodity Prices. Last June shorts were squeezed in cotton, hide, rubber, lesser commodities, as well as in stocks. Last week, also on a lesser scale, speculatively minded manufacturers, who had gone short of raw materials, again turned to buy in a rising market. The difference this year is that the commodity price upturn is accompanied by falling instead of rising production, is more speculative, than industrial; cotton textile prices rose as inventories peaked again at over 200,000,000 yards, and manufacturers discussed ways of carrying unwanted cloth; hide prices zoomed as leather production fell from...