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Blows, yells of rage and pain filled the Chamber. A dozen Deputies scuffed on the floor kicking, pushing, slapping. President Herriot, having worn himself out calling for order, put on his silk hat and betook his full-dressed self from the Chamber as a sign that the session was suspended. It was also a signal for the attendants to clear the public galleries. An excited attendant, with marks of a maturing black eye, rushed to the signal box and instead of pushing the button to signal the sergeants-at-arms to clear the galleries, he pressed one that called...
...axiom used to be that there were only three important textile fibres-wool, cotton and silk. Since the War, the new artificial fibre "rayon" has forged ahead so rapidly that it has already passed silk in point of production, and now looms as a dangerous competitor to wool and cotton. In 1924, world output of cotton was 9,000 million pounds; of wool, 2,600 million pounds; of rayon, between 100 and 125 million pounds. Rayon production for 1925 is estimated at 150 to 200 million pounds, with steady growth ahead...
...lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...
...into committee on the budget. Premier Baldwin announced that the Government had decided to impose a 33 1/3% ad valorem duty on imported lace. A motion to that effect was accordingly introduced. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Laborite, asked whether the Government had conceived a grudge against women. "First it was silk, now it is lace." The motion was carried...
Demolition. There was a raveled place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost...