Word: burlap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post's dingy third-floor offices, she works in a nook fenced off by burlap screens. At first mail was skimpy and other Post employes wrote letters on order, for her to answer. Now she gets anywhere from ten to 100-odd letters a day, from readers willing to risk a furious answer to get their problems (anonymously) into print...
There should be a burlap boom. The U.S. is critically short of burlap, and Calcutta warehouses are bulging with it. Yet ships in the last month have been returning from India with unused cargo space. Reason: Indian exporters have jacked their prices up 15% in the last six months, but OPA maintains a tight price ceiling on burlap in the U.S. (at the dock, it now costs $15 per bale above the ceiling...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
...Rzhev. Six hundred miles to the north, west of Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
...soldiers discreetly retreated when a strangely dressed figure emerged from the woods near Fort McPherson, Ga. Clad in heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...