Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
...occasional frog caught in the paddyfields. They moved stealthily in and out of the villages, spotting Viet Minh spies, harassing the enemy by night and playing the part of noncombatant peasants by day. In one sector the sister of a priest led a group of women in dark brown cotton uniforms, their large pockets always containing a few hand grenades...
...warriors jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water...
...natural fibers and has found profitable new markets. Cone Mills has profitably boosted denim for men's suits, curtains, etc. For many other companies mergers are probably the answer. Although it was profitably producing synthetics. Burlington Mills bought up Goodall-Sanford and Pacific Mills to diversify its cotton-and wool-producing facilities, thus have a hedge against the ups and downs in both the synthetic and natural fiber markets. Despite their troubles, textilemen believe that long-range prospects are good, since per capita consumption of textiles in the U.S. has been steadily climbing for more than 30 years...
...plastic boat drawing less than two feet of water when loaded to its five-ton capacity has been built for the Army by the Englander Co. Constructed in bolted sections, the craft can be taken apart for air shipment. The 1½-in.-thick hull of resin-treated cotton duck sandwiched between layers of Fiberglas is five times stronger than steel of equal thickness, only a fourth as heavy...