Word: lint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After passing through a "haircatcher" which picks up any lint from bathing suits, the water is heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum, which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results are tested twice daily by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics (using 1926 as 100%) give the following price changes for March against March 1929: All commodities, 90.8% against 97.5%; raw materials, 89.3% against 98.9%; farm products, 94.7% against 107.1%; chemicals and drugs, 91.2% against 95.6%; cotton domestic consumption for March was 508,600 bales of lint against 631,700. Building contracts for the first quarter were down to $1,100,200,000, $155,700,000 off from the first quarter last year and the poorest since 1926. Bank clearings, helped by larger stockmarket activity, were nevertheless down 17.8%. Insolvencies for the first quarter numbered...
After passing through a "hair-catcher" which will pick up any lint from bathing suits, the water will be heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum. which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with...
Boll Weevil crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in 1892, within 30 years had established itself as a permanent infestation of the whole cotton-growing South. The females lay their eggs within the unripe pods, the grubs devour the green lint and within three weeks are ready to breed themselves, In 1921, before the ravage of the weevil had been fairly discounted, the pest destroyed six million bales of cotton, cut that year's crop yield to less than eight million dollars, a disturbingly low record...