The Fabric of Civilization / A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States
The Fabric of Civilization
A Short Survey
of the Cotton Industry in the
United States
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
140 Broadway
COPYRIGHT, 1919
GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
THE cotton industry touches the lives of the vast majority of the peoples of the earth. The ensuing survey does not pretend to cover the field in all its diversity. It aims to give, in brief compass, such general facts concerning the industry in the United States as may enable the reader quickly to familiarize himself with its broader outlines.
Contents
5
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CHAPTER I
The Importance and Power of Cotton
CHAPTER II
Where Cotton is Grown and Spun and Why
CHAPTER III
The Raw Cotton Market
CHAPTER IV
The Cloth Market
CHAPTER V
Financing Cotton and Cotton Cloth
CHAPTER VI
American Cloth in Foreign Markets
CHAPTER VII
Some of the Grower’s Problems
CHAPTER VIII
In the Cotton Mill
CHAPTER IX
The Finishing Operations