ginnery
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ginneries
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There was also a textile company, an oil mill, and a ginnery that prepared cotton for export.
From BBC ● May 18, 2018
The crop is being picked and soon the ginnery figures will begin definitely to indicate its real amount.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weighing gin bales in a ginnery yard 36 Cotton warehouses in the South The mill, we have seen, frequently pays cash for its raw stock, or else buys upon short term notes.
From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
So great is the pressure exerted that a bundle of cotton coming to the press from the ginnery, 4 feet in depth, is reduced to 7 inches when drawn from the compressor.
From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Wilkinson, Frederick
There is a store conducted by his black son, a blacksmith shop, and a ginnery.
From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Jordyn Holman reported from textile factories and ginneries in North and South Carolina.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
In cotton fields, ginneries, yarn mills, dye facilities and cut-and-sew shops in the Carolinas, conversations get animated when they turn to trade law, which hangs over the work being done.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
By July 2020, Patagonia had decided to break the two-decades-long ties with its Chinese partners and build relationships with new cotton farmers, ginneries and spinners in other countries.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
In addition to the small country ginneries, large modern ginneries have now been set up in all the leading Southern market towns.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
There were in the United States, in 1917, a total of 24,272 ginneries, of which 3,921 were idle.
From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
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