Oral History Collection
| MAIN ENTRY: | Tucker, Emerson E. |
| DATE OF INTERVIEW: | July 17, 1984 |
| LOCATION OF INTERVIEW: | Lubbock, Texas |
| INTERVIEWER: | Richard Mason |
| LENGTH OF INTERVIEW: | 1 hour, 33 minutes |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: | Emerson Tucker discusses his career in and his knowledge of the cotton industry, with particular reference to fiber testing. |
| TAPE ONE, SIDE ONE: | Background Born: Mystic, Connecticut To Brownsville, Texas Education Texas Tech Textile To Lubbock (1949) Military service Return to Texas Tech GI Bill Marriage Dennison Cotton Mills Duties Fiber testing Career Plains Co-op Acceptance of position Fiber testing lines Procedure Duties Micronaire Machine Dan Davis, inventor Purpose Development of new equipment Glen Witts Willie Smith, inventor Development of compresses Development of warehouses |
| TAPE ONE, SIDE TWO | Plains Cotton Cooperative (again) Dan Davis (again) Motion control Fiber testing in 1960s Length testing instrumentation Classing of cotton Container systems Texas Tech Cotton Incorporated Thailand efforts American Cotton Growers Modules Bush Hog Continental Cotton evaluation |
| TAPE TWO, SIDE ONE: | High volume instrumentation Changes as of 1974 Plains Cooperative Textile plant Levi Strauss Success Cotton selection criteria Properties of fiber "Blow ups" Solution Mixing Value of instrument testing Open-end spinning High volume instrumentation (again) Producer response Crop improvement Cotton (again) California West Texas High volume instrumentation (again) Burlington Mills Acceptance Variation of test scores Hand classing Shortcomings Instruments Consistency |
| TAPE TWO, SIDE TWO: | Hand classing (continued) Instrumentation (again) Future Significant changes in the cotton industry |
| RANGE DATES: | c. 1930-1984 |
| BULK DATES: | 1949-1984 |