worsted

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Jiangsu Nijiaxiang Group Worsted Textile Co., a few hours’ drive from Shanghai in the heartland of Chinese textile production, says that before the 2008-09 global financial crisis, exports accounted for 70% of sales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2015

Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach cloth, Ward has been running their suitmaking subsidiary, the Goodall Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the money, they formed Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. with Joe as president.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1942 Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. was healthy enough to take over Woonsocket's Bernon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Worsted as the South clearly was in the contest with her rival for political supremacy, she refused nevertheless to modify her pretentions to political supremacy.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Grimké, Archibald Henry