Word: cottons
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...Street, which is a pedestrian/bicycle/bus only thoroughfare, lined with trees and people trying to sell you things (indoors and out, all the time, all the year), had set out this black chair to be thrown away. The cloth was frayed on the edge, where metal strut met canvas and cotton. Sometime soon, somebody was going to sit on that chair in the modernistic/artistic apartment it almost undoubtably used to reside in, and the cloths would part and Lo! a guest would be on his butt. With an injury at one end and a threat of suit at the other...
Consumers felt the pinch almost at once as some wholesale vegetable prices tripled. Orange-juice prices were unlikely to rise anywhere near as much, thanks to a large crop in Brazil and normal production in California and Mexico, which escaped the freeze. Nonetheless, traders on the New York Cotton Exchange last week drove the price of a futures contract for January delivery of frozen orange-juice concentrate to $1.61 per lb., up more than 25% in two weeks...
Meanwhile, the 2-9 Crimson was aching to get back to the friendly confines of Briggs Cage, of Cambridge, of the East. No more cherry coke at the press table. No more cotton candy hawkers in the stands. No more song-and-dance troupes behind the basket. And no PAC-10 teams on the other side of the scorers table...
...store has an inventory of nearly 10,000 items, sporting everything from Levi's Dockers for less than $30 to 28 different colors of all-cotton turtle-necks at $8.99 a piece...
...cars picks up speed, and the cab's chimney spouts black smoke that swirls around the head of Steve Harris, who is kneeling on the house's gray-green roof and raising low-hanging telephone wires. The town is left behind, and the landscape shifts to fields of cotton and soybean. As he approaches the Ross R. Barnett Reservoir, Malone pulls a lever on the floor, cranking a cable that raises the house an extra foot so it just barely clears the side railings. "I've been doing this for 20 years, so I know what will go and where...