1.   During the boom which followed the end of World War I, Hooley became involved in trading shares in the cotton industry.

2.   He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten.

3.   Stimulated by technological progress, the cotton industry expanded more and more.

4.   The cotton industry created a form of society that was different from any that had gone before.

5.   At first the cotton industry had found its outlet at home, where a latent demand for a cheap, durable, light textile had long existed.

6.   In Lancashire the steam-powered cotton industry had created a form of society that was very different from anything that had gone before.

7.   It was based on numerous small workshops rather than upon the large factories that characterized the Lancashire cotton industry.

8.   An analysis of the American cotton industry written for Cotton Inc., a trade group, will be published in September by Cambridge University Press.