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• Directory:Air Purifiers USA/Odors and Chemicals
  ...motor, powder-coated carbon canister, a 100% metal casing, and an organic cotton pre-filter. It’s effective up to 1,500 square feet, and uses 20 pounds o
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• Directory:Sangini Online
  ...colour , design and texture of this cloth varies and it might be made from cotton, silk, georgette, chiffon or one of the several man-made materials. The mo
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...the cotton gin in 1793. The farmers used slave labor to operate the large cotton plantations. By 1860, Mississippi's black slaves outnumbered white people 4 ...ssion (1929-1939), thousands lost their farms in Mississippi. The price of cotton fell from twenty cents a pound in the 1920s, to five cents by 1931. State l
  18 KB (2,752 words) - 19:17, 17 January 2013
• Directory:South Carolina
  ...years the state grew and prospered. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became a major crop, particularly in the upcountry. A new capital city, Col ...gain. The economy continued to suffer in the years that followed, however. Cotton prices were low, and the plantation system that had brought South Carolina
  16 KB (2,509 words) - 19:21, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...'s industrial greatness. Samuel Slater built the first successful American cotton-textile mill at Pawtucket in 1790. An abundance of water power led to the r ...e cotton supply where labor was cheaper—led to a continuing decline in the cotton-textile industry. Nevertheless, the manufacture of textile products is stil
  15 KB (2,282 words) - 19:21, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Tennessee
  ...the year in which Memphis, soon to become the metropolis of a fast-growing cotton kingdom, was platted. ...tton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year.
  19 KB (3,007 words) - 19:22, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Alabama
  ...ble fur trade, centered at Saint Stephens, and with only the beginnings of cotton cultivation. ...stablished large plantations based on slave labor, which helped to produce cotton for the markets of Southern ports. Poorer newcomers took over less fertile
  23 KB (3,458 words) - 13:21, 29 July 2014
• Directory:Wikimedia Foundation/Grand Donors
  Unwilling to leave a name, since $2,000 is what a typical cotton farm family of 10 persons would earn in a whole year in Chad, Benin, or Mal
  12 KB (1,924 words) - 17:54, 13 February 2010
• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...growth was steady although never spectacular. The production of woolen and cotton goods and the manufacturing of shoes led all other enterprises. The forests * On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover m
  21 KB (3,274 words) - 19:18, 17 January 2013
• Wikipedia Vandalism/Lesley Visser
  ...fter it happened, I went back into the stadium, walked to the top of the [[Cotton Bowl]], and just sat there and cried.” (Years later, while covering [[NCA
  25 KB (3,849 words) - 20:17, 5 January 2010
• Directory:Pakistan
  * Agriculture: Products--wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, eggs, fruits, vegetables, milk, beef, mutton. * Trade (2005 est.): Exports--$14.85 billion: textiles (garments, bed linen, cotton cloth, and yarn), rice, leather goods, sports goods, carpets, rugs, chemica
  55 KB (7,888 words) - 01:07, 21 November 2009
• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Economy
  rice exporter. Other cash crops are coffee, cotton, peanuts, rubber, sugarcane, and tea.
  19 KB (2,741 words) - 22:55, 9 January 2008
• Directory:Louisiana
  ...de it one of the richest regions in America as first indigo then sugar and cotton rose to prominence in world markets. Many Louisiana planters were among the
  18 KB (2,816 words) - 19:16, 17 January 2013
• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...d, together with his brother-in-law, bought 920 acres (3.7 km²) of land, a cotton plantation near [[Coffeeville, Mississippi]]. He ran this plantation for th
  42 KB (6,289 words) - 20:08, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Afghanistan
  * Agriculture (estimated 52% of GDP): Products--wheat, corn, barley, rice, cotton, fruit, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, and mutton. ...llion (does not include opium): fruits and nuts, hand-woven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semiprecious gems. Major markets--Central As
  48 KB (6,959 words) - 17:23, 18 April 2007
• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...ng state was on the verge of great economic development. At the same time, cotton, wheat, and corn were major money crops, and cattleland holdings, although
  18 KB (2,965 words) - 19:20, 17 January 2013
• Directory:North Carolina
  ...s. By the end of the 1920s, North Carolina led the nation in production of cotton textiles, wooden furniture, and tobacco products. State leaders improved ed
  21 KB (3,200 words) - 19:20, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Texas
  ...exas. Although open range cattle ranching was beginning to spread rapidly, cotton was the state's chief crop. The planter class, with its slaveholding intere
  21 KB (3,274 words) - 19:30, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...later added {{convert|360|acre|sqkm}} to the farm. The primary crop was [[cotton]], grown by slave workers. Jackson started with nine slaves, and had as man ...from the Bank to invest it in other banks, land sales, canal construction, cotton production, and manufacturing boomed.<ref name="digitalhistory">[http://www
  58 KB (8,338 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Turkey
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus; livestock
  33 KB (4,364 words) - 22:19, 4 March 2008

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