Lexicographical Neighbors of Topmakers
Literary usage of Topmakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trust Movement in British Industry: A Study of Business Organisation by Henry William Macrosty (1907)
"The topmakers were entitled to a higher price than the commission combers, for
they were selling an assured business and undertook to send all their wool to ..."
2. British Industries: A Series of General Reviews for Business Men and Students by William James Ashley (1907)
"That, I take it, is what is meant and implied by goodwill, and in the contract
entered into. Any man * Ie " topmakers" who sold the combing departments of ..."
3. Wool, the World's Comforter: A Survey of the Wool Industry from the Raw by William Dermot Darby (1922)
"In England there is a class of merchants, called topmakers, who are an intermediate
step between the wool merchant and the manufacturer. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"There is considerable difference in the terms used in classing and grading wool
throughout the world. The terms most widely used are those of the topmakers' ..."
5. Organised Produce Markets by John George Smith (1922)
"Bradford buyers need sound lots embodying little waste; and the topmakers, or
dealers, buy to make up complex blends, and are ready to take lots of a mixed ..."
6. Some Great Commodities by Edith M. Miller, Robert M. McIsaac, Louis C. Taylor, Beatrice Bulla, Anna Marguerite Michener, Esther G. Tomkins (1922)
"The Bradford or foreign topmakers' system for classifying wool assumes that wool
is of the same quality as the finest count of"yarn to which it can be ..."
7. The Wool-growing Industry by United States Tariff Commission (1921)
"topmakers and spinners are less particular about the percentage of short fiber
present in wools that are combed into a short top. ..."
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