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Region’s cotton now suited for more than denim

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

By Elliott Blackburn, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Longtime West Texas cotton producers can remember their crop being a hard sale to buyers, suited for few products - maybe mops, or famously, denim - and certainly not the strong, long quality that Oxford dress shirts required.
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