Business: Stockings

The Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York just finished counting the number of stockings made during 1925. Of the 103,707,336 dozen pairs made then, 50,402,000 dozen were entirely of cotton; of about 39,000,000 dozen pairs of half hose, 21,000,000 dozen were of cotton. And, proudly noted the Association, cotton had to be used to reenforce the tops, toes and heels of two-thirds of the rest.

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