Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover did not issue that statement last week. Instead he shifted the authority and responsibility of explaining his position to Undersecretary of State Joseph Potter Cotton who spoke for him. Explanations were in order because of utter confusion among the World Press as to the Hoover-Stimson policy at the London Naval Conference. Wise indeed was the President not to speak out in his own official person. Had he done so, he would have encumbered himself with a direct responsibility for all of Statesman Stimson's future deeds or misdeeds at the Conference...
...Another Cotton statement: the fate of the London Conference will be settled this week...
Chronic complaint of every southern cotton planter: his inability to keep Negroes working steadily on his place. He advances money for food and clothing to his black hands, only to have them run away before they have worked off their debt. If he attempts to hold them by force, he violates the anti-slavery amendment, is guilty of peonage...
...keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month, 200 ft. per day) is indeed a strange weapon...
...Rayon is produced from any form of cellulose, primarily cotton. When made of wood (viscose rayon) it is treated with sodium hydroxide which reduces it to alpha cellulose. After this it is treated with carbon bisulphide. After one more step an orange-colored, syrupy liquid results which is forced through tiny holes, forming filaments, which after being treated in baths become rayon thread. From a laboratory invention, rayon has grown to be the world's third largest textile...