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...silk consumption swelled from 80,000 bales in 1900 to 500,000 bales in 1929, of which the U. S. took 73%. This was wealth to the Kata-kura brothers. In 1920 they recapitalized their company at 52,000,000 yen, gave it a more resounding name: Katakura Seishi Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (Katakura Raw-Silk, Spun Silk Manufacturing Co. Ltd.). Today it is one of the largest and oldest silk reeling firms in the world. It is a huge producer of pedigreed silkworm eggs, has 28 silkworm moths each lay her eggs neatly in one of 28 squares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silk Suitor | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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