Word: lint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
...cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them...
Cotton Tariff. No longer may U. S. cotton enter Russia free of duty, for the Council of People's Commissars calculated that at present prices U. S. lint can stand a tax of three and one-half cents a pound and still be cheaper than Turkestan cotton. This tariff was promulgated last week, the current price of cotton in the U. S. being only twelve cents...
...July 31, 1925, there were on hand 1,610,455 bales, of which 866,259 were held by consuming establishments, 514,196 in public storage and compresses and 230,000 bales elsewhere. During the year ending July 31, home consumption of cotton amounted to 6,191,349 bales of lint and 651,065 of linters, comparing with 5,680,554 of lint and 536,738 of linters for the year ending July 31, 1924. Exports have likewise increased; during the year ending July 31, 1925, 8,195,896 bales were sent abroad, as compared with 5,772,000 bales...