piece goods
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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
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
Severely affected were Japanese mills which used to export large quantities of cheap piece goods to India.
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
