piece goods
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The cotton spinning of individual Gandhi followers was said to be seriously affecting the British cotton piece goods trade � In Japan, cotton mills were curtailing production.
From Time Magazine Archive
April imports of piece goods were reported as 165,000,000 yd. as against 215,000,000 yd. for April 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
This depression Mr. Knickerbocker dramatized thus: in 1913 exports of British cotton piece goods exceeded seven billion square yards; last year they were less than two and one-half billion square yards!
From Time Magazine Archive
Fixing her mouth like saying prune, she just went on studying the piece goods.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
