A short 1915 trade-journal editorial on the cotton market in the autumn of that year. It reports that a government crop forecast of under two-thirds of a crop sent cotton prices up to about 13 cents per pound, from under 10 cents a month earlier and 6 to 7 cents a year earlier. It also notes that the 1915 crop was baled entirely with American-made steel hoops, because European supplies were cut off, even though cotton ties were on the free list under the Underwood-Simmons tariff act.

A 1921 Iron Age trade article describing how the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works of Worcester, Mass., handled scrap through a committee formed in 1917. It explains how steel, pipe, wood and tool scrap was reworked into washers, gudgeon rings, gear blanks, collars, studs and shafts for loom construction, and how the remainder was sold. It includes cost savings figures and a sketch of the reclaimed parts. The focus is on factory management of a loom manufacturer, not on weaving.