21.   Cotton prices tumbled from recent records, reflecting the fears of traders that textile mills would slow purchases.

22.   Earlier, Loro Piana acquired Warren of Stafford, a textile mill in Stafford Springs, Conn.

23.   For decades, their view was of a textile mill, until it burned down last year.

24.   For more than a century, the biggest headlines in this verdant corner of the South came from layoffs at the textile mills.

25.   Growing up in Lowell after the closing of the textile mills, he keenly felt the plight of its residents.

26.   He had stayed put when nearly every other textile mill in New England shut or moved away, he had survived recessions and a bankruptcy.

27.   He was a native of Greenville and once worked in the textile mills there.

28.   He was born and reared in this blue-collar community of textile mills and furniture factories in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

29.   He worked in a textile mill and a nickel mine before rising in union ranks.

30.   His father, William Thomas Whitehead, owned textile mills.