Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Color-of-the-season in U. S. women's fashions is no longer determined by a universal change of taste, nor even by the Paris designers who set skirt lengths, waist heights. Color-of-the-season is now decided by the U. S. manufacturers of silks, cotton-goods, shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying...
...thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities for the stage by the way it holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with another will make a ball balancer. One which waves its legs back and forth rapidly makes a chariot racer. Trainers prod...
...30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...
...Soviet lumber totalled 38 million feet, compared with U. S. production of 33 billion feet; 113,000 tons of Soviet Anthracite against U. S. production of 75,000,000 tons. In an export trade of $107,651,000 to Russia, the U. S. shipped $29,000,000 worth of cotton, $20,000,000 worth of farm machinery. Last week International Harvester increased its Milwaukee plant 50% to handle a big Soviet order...
...First in 1929, unmanufactured cotton: $770,800,000; second, machinery: $612,700,000; third, petroleum: $561,200,200; automobiles and accessories...