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    cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted pack of compressed cotton lint after ginning. The dimensions and weight may vary with different cotton-producing...
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  • "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (Roud 10061, sometimes "Pick a Bale o' Cotton") is a traditional American folk song and work song first recorded by Texas inmates...
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    tonnes or 110 million bales annually, accounting for 2.5% of the world's arable land. India is the world's largest producer of cotton. The United States...
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    fibers. The bale press then compresses the cotton into bales for storage and shipping. Modern gins can process up to 15 tonnes (33,000 lb) of cotton per hour...
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    S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, with the corresponding figures for China and India being 35 million and 26.5 million bales, respectively...
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  • Bank of Iran Cotton bale Hay or straw bale in farming, bound by a baler Paper bale, a unit of paper measurement equal to ten reams Wool bale, a standard-sized...
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    A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into...
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    their lives in the aftermath. The ship was carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, timber, oil, gold, and ammunition including around 1,400 tons of explosives...
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    strand of spider silk. Cotton Bale Size Cotton lint is usually measured in bales, although there is no standard and the bale size may vary country to...
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    soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment held positions behind a breastwork of cotton bales during the British attack. These actions and the lineage of other units...
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    cap'n shouin', "Dinah, blow yo' hawn?" Sing a song o' the city; Roll dat cotton bale; Niggah aint half so happy As when he's out o' jail Norfolk foh its oystahshells...
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  • assignment loading and unloading cotton bales from a truck. On November 9, 1973, he injured his back when a cotton bale fell on him. Over the next three...
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  • Johnson, are summoned. Uncle Bud, a homeless junk collector, finds a bale of cotton that fell off the white hijackers’ get-away truck and eventually ends...
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    Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), on the hunt for a money-filled cotton bale stolen by a corrupt reverend named Deke O'Malley. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss...
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    more specifically the cotton mill of which it was a part, embodied a whole series of processes in one continuity, from raw cotton bale to the spun thread...
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    Leathers. Each of the steamboats since Leathers' first had as its ensign a cotton bale between its stacks. The ninth Natchez, the SS Natchez, is a sternwheel...
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  • by his father where he started working as a supervisor for loading of cotton bales on to trucks which was the most junior level in each department. He slowly...
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    Cotton Incorporated is a not-for-profit organization funded by cotton growers in the United States through per-bale assessments on producers and importers...
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  • American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton, 26 U.S. (1 Pet.) 511 (1828), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The case...
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  • steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides. Cottonclads were prevalent during the American Civil...
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    They rode through the cotton district, and noted the presence of cotton everywhere. Many bales had been cut open, and loose cotton was blowing around; a...
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  • Holt led a Union force from Brownsville, Texas, to destroy 5,000 bales of cotton stacked at the San AgustĂ­n Plaza. Colonel Santos Benavides commanded...
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    at the waterline, strapped and bolted in place, with pine lumber and cotton-bale barricades to protect her boilers, but the Governor Moore was never commissioned...
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  • cotton factors, accepting cotton bales from customers as payment for their merchandise. They eventually began a second business as traders in cotton....
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    appears on several CSA banknotes. On this $10 note she reclines on a cotton bale holding a caduceus. Cropped image from National Numismatic Collection...
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    to have built the tall flag post outside the temple with the help of cotton bales. The other Alvars who are believed to have visited the temple at various...
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    as the Atlanta Hoop Company, with 120 employees, and which produced cotton bale ties and barrel hoops. It became the Atlanta Steel Company, and then...
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    shelves in the back of the office hold stacks of brown paper-wrapped cotton bale samples. In the top right, there is a picture of a steamship hanging...
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    fertilizing, and handling of organic crops. As of 2007[update], 265,517 bales of organic cotton were produced in 24 countries and worldwide production was growing...
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    brothers became cotton factors, accepting cotton bales from customers as payment for their merchandise. Cotton trading eventually became the main thrust...
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