Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin radio estimated that Soviet-Nazi trade for the next year would reach $800,000,000, about twelve times what it was last year. In return for "thousands, even millions" of tons of cotton, oil, flax, wood, Germany would deliver to the Bolsheviks entire factories, chemicals, machinery...
...Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal $33,000,000 a year. > Duke Power Co., which powers 7,000,000 cotton spindles (25% of those working in the U. S.), is spending $8,000,000 on an 80,000 kilowatt plant on the Yadkin River. > At Oswego, N. Y., Niagara Hudson is doubling its local 80,000 kilowatt capacity, spending...
...This week Tass, official Russian news agency, reported that a German cruiser had seized the U. S. Maritime Commission's 4,963-ton vessel City of Flint (which rescued survivors of the Athenia), bound from Manhattan to Manchester with a contraband cargo of foods, cotton, sewing machines, plows, tractors, coffee, hair and feathers. The report said that 18 Germans had boarded the City of Flint and sailed her up around Scandinavia to Kola Bay, where Murmansk lies. The German Admiralty denied all knowledge of the incident...
...orders in the cotton textile industry amounted to only 30% of the quantity in production...
...workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton; 100,000,000 sq. ft. of hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair; 256,000 cattle hides; 590,000 tons of sugar cane; 1,115,000 bushels of corn; 4,828,200 lbs. of turpentine; 18,590 lbs. of beeswax...