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
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
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
Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had once gone to the ladies’ room in the morning and been found by Mr. Gonzalez late that afternoon asleep on a pile of piece goods in the factory loft.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
