Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both sexes the official dress gives an air of covered...
...city's poorhouses. The Department of Hospitals announced that henceforth paupers will have a choice of nightshirts or pajamas, suits cut like tailors' advertisements and shrink-proof, shoes of 1938; that pauperesses will get flowery percales, felt hats for winter, straws for summer, stockings still cotton but in stylish tan. As a special treat, garters will be issued to both sexes. Reason: the city discovered that the paupers' clothes were so old-fashioned they had to be made to order; it will be cheaper to buy modern clothes from stock...
...became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable...
Other reactions to peace were equally logical. Foreign bonds led a zooming bond market. Sterling jumped 13? in one day. Prices of the "war commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...
Last year the rubber industry bought 283,750,000 lbs. of cotton for use in tires. Therefore when U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced last August that they had developed a much stronger tire by using rayon (TIME, Aug. 15), the makers of cotton tire cord were stirred to action. Last week the biggest one of all, Bibb Manufacturing Co. of Macon, Ga., announced the result-a cotton tire cord which it claims has 25% more tensile strength under friction heat developed at high speeds than the old cotton type. A Bibb customer simultaneously announced that tests...