piece goods
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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
Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed � the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1941, when piece goods were scarce, Kahn took a chance on Manchester.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such.
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
