Nelson's cottonseed is trucked from the Shallowater gin to the Plains Cooperative Oil Mill (PCOM), on the east side of Lubbock.

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The oil mill scrapes off the tiny fuzzy bits with microscopic saws and turns them into big bundles of fuzz to be sold.

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Picasso's "The Oil Mill" (1909) is also historic among the landmark works.

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The income from the world's largest oil mill, then, is paid to the region's gins, which in turn pass it through in dividends to growers like Nelson and Ruth.

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In October 1999, PCOM merged with the Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill and the new entity, the Plains Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill (PYCO), markets about one-third of the cotton oil produced in the United States.21 The Plains Cooperative Mill in Lubbock is the world's largest cottonseed oil mill, receiving about 1, 200 tons of seed per day from the region's gins, and churning out the makings for peanut butter, soap, and throw pillows.

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He and his family still own a palm-oil estate and mill in Sumatra and he and his brother have a pulp mill in Kalimantan.

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The edible oil factory, a big flour mill, the hospital and customs office have totally collapsed - apparently blown up.

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Their nuts are hand-ground in a stone mill to produce a nourishing oil.

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We pedaled to the mill where they have been pressing oil from walnuts and chestnuts in the same way for more than 400 years.

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Among drawings by less well known artists is an oil on paper by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau which captures the hard and heavy labour of workers in a paper mill.

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