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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course of Water Passing Through New Swimming Pool is Traced--Undergoes Complete Chemical Treatment | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: King Cotton's Curse | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War of Attrition | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cotton Sucker | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoover v. Eureka | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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