Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paper War. Since war's end, the papermakers have been edging high-priced cotton out of the bag market. But when 20 states passed laws forbidding the re-use of any bags for food, cotton men finally got up off their bales. With cotton bags at 32? (per 100-lb. bag) v. 10? for paper bags, cotton-bag makers had been getting by only because bakers were able to use cotton bags three and four times over in handling flour...
...Bag. So cotton men dropped in on secondhand bag dealers in key U.S. cities and convinced them that they could profitably boost their business by buying used bags from bakers, processing them into tea towels, and selling them through retailers. Bag dealers were soon buying bakers' used cotton bags for as much as 25? apiece, thus cutting the original cost to bakers to around 7?-well under paper prices...
...Manhattan last week, the cotton men reported on the first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market in the bag...
...third network, ABC, entered the struggle for Sunday night listeners. With the freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage battle is bag-eyed Fred Allen, who dropped below CBS's Adventures of Sam Spade, as well as ABC's Stop the Music...
...writing to you to tell you thank-you for those presents. gee that party wase so nice wish we could have one every day. my presents were so nice. and the goodies were good too. When Claudia broke the bag the nuts came tumbling down on my head. the chair game was nice too. poor me got left out. all the teachers was nice to us. and all the teachers were pretty too. I had presents for some of the teachers too and I was going to give the teacher one next year to. but I did not know where...