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Little Rock grew by cotton culture and by steamboat glamour-creaking wharves piled high with cotton bales for loading on shallow-draft paddle-wheelers such as Reindeer, Cinderella and Spy-and Little Rock seceded along with Arkansas and the Old South from the Union in 1861. Two years later Little Rock was captured by the Union Army without a fight, set about treating the Union men courteously. And when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader...
...Lancashire weavers rioted in 1791 and burned to the ground a cotton mill newly set up by Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. Time and again as the Industrial Revolution spread, workmen fearful of losing their livelihood attacked new labor-saving machines with hammers and torches. Even today, some labor unions (e.g., building trades, printers, stagehands, locomotive engineers) combat technological progress with featherbedding practices; their leaders regard automation with a milder and more law-abiding version of the 18th century loom-wrecker's wild fear...
...steelmen and to all Indians (except Communists), Tata symbolizes one of the world's great success stories. The founder of the family fortunes was Jamsetji Tata (1839-1904), son of a Bombay merchant. Jamsetji went to England to study industrial techniques, went back to India and started a cotton mill. The mill grew into other enterprises. To cap his lifework, Jamsetji dreamed of starting an iron and steel mill. He died before his plans could be carried out, but three years later, in 1907, his sons started such a mill. Informed of their plans, Sir Frederick Upcott, chairman...
PUCCINI: "Perfect for ironing. One needs some lush, lyrical and isolated selection to get one through a cotton blouse or dress. Puccini is particularly good if one does not have a steam iron and has to dampen things. One can cry automatically, gently and without despair, which helps in the dampening...
King took the advice. He bought more land and protected it with a private army of pistol-slinging cowboys. At the back door of the Confederacy, he also spent much of his time buying cotton and running it past Union lines to be sold to Confederate quartermasters. King, his ranch, and his growing fortune safely weathered...