Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan was denounced by members from cotton-weaving constituencies for working successfully today the following scheme, in cahoots with British cotton printers: During the past three years British imports of Japanese unprinted bleached cotton cloth leaped up from 200,000 yards to 20,000,000 yards. These were printed in British plants, shipped to the Dominions, Crown Colonies and India as "British" (which technically under British law they are, because "finished" in the Kingdom), and sold under the benefits of Imperial preference to British subjects at prices which undercut not only British woven and British printed cloth of similar quality...
...fortnight another textile man became a director of U. S. Steel. Almost 20 years younger than Mr. Taylor and still owning an interest in the department store his father owned in Nashville, Tenn., George Arthur Sloan became a U. S. notable in June 1933, when as president of the Cotton-Textile Institute he walked into the White House with the first NRA code ever drafted. His trade association experience later included the big textile strike of 1934, during which picketers outside his Manhattan office sang: "We will hang George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation...
Other noise-bothered New Yorkers use Flents, wax-impregnated cotton plugs...
Price rises in such great world staples as wheat, cotton, rubber and copper have been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...
...most prosperous city in North America, his childish bent for drawing was encouraged by his stepfather, Schoolmaster Peter Pelham, whose shingle advertised: "Reading, Writing, Needlework, Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist, in 1755 painted a miniature of redheaded Colonel Washington of Virginia, who was already known...