Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure up to the exploits of its army, that England was the chief beneficiary of Semmes's exploits. For the assistance given the Confederacy by British shipping interests, as well as for a definitive criticism of Confederate and Northern policy, let Readers Semmes, Semmes, et al. consult King Cotton Diplomacy by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Southern-born Professor of history at Vanderbilt University...
...sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale, a Boston native who, like John Harvard, had made a gift of books. From the first, historians say, relations between mother and child were intimate; students of both studied a similar curriculum, saturated in Calvinism, and transferred frequently from...
Specifically, he proposed to have some of the 1,600,000 bales of cotton which the Government holds as collateral for loans to producers processed into dry goods and sold at prices far below the retail market. The system, if it worked, would provide cheap cotton goods for the poor, employment for cotton workers, an outlet for surplus stocks...
Last weelt the Department of Agriculture set out to find answers for these questions. Picking cotton mattresses as a medium for experiment, Assistant Secretary Harry Brown invited cotton producers, manufacturers, distributors to discuss the possibility of applying the two-price plan at home...
...take color (asbestos cannot), it is well suited for curtains, rugs, hangings. For house insulation it is lighter than rock wool. For air conditioning it makes a fibrous filter which scours air of dirt and moisture. For wire insulation it is more compact, sometimes more economical than cotton, which must be made non-inflammable or used with rubber...