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Cinderella of the new South : a history of the cottonseed industry, 1855-1955 / Lynette Boney Wrenn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 280 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0870498827 (alk. paper)
  • 9780870498824 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD9093.U6 S688 1995
Contents:
Beginnings of the American cottonseed industry -- Expansion of cottonseed milling in the South -- Cottonseed buying and selling -- Cottonseed crushing -- Cottonseed-oil refining and manufacturing -- Organization of the cottonseed industry -- Cottonseed price fixing and politics -- World War I and postwar shocks -- Competition and cooperation between the world wars -- End of the hydraulic era -- The new industry and the new South.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.

Beginnings of the American cottonseed industry -- Expansion of cottonseed milling in the South -- Cottonseed buying and selling -- Cottonseed crushing -- Cottonseed-oil refining and manufacturing -- Organization of the cottonseed industry -- Cottonseed price fixing and politics -- World War I and postwar shocks -- Competition and cooperation between the world wars -- End of the hydraulic era -- The new industry and the new South.