Excerpt from Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Combed Cotton Yarns: April 14, 1921 Owing to the fact that manufacturers contract a considerable part Of their product in advance, the avera e prices realized did not advance as much as quoted market prices. N 1919 the average prices realized by the two groups of companies were for the 8 companies 148 per cent higher than in 1914, and for the 11 companies 166 per cent higher, while the average quoted market prices for 17 typical yarns were 245 per cent higher in 1919 than in 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.