Word: burlap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When India and Pakistan separated in 1947, their profitable burlap industry was also split. Pakistan grows 75% of the world's raw jute, but it did not have a single jute mill to make burlap. India owned all the mills, and when the Korean war sent the price of burlap soaring, India tried to gouge burlap users by slapping a heavy export tax on the cloth. Result: imports into the U.S., the biggest burlap user, dropped 20% as businessmen shifted to substitutes for packaging...
...squeezed out of the burlap market, Pakistan raised $20 million for two jute mills and began to make its own burlap. Last week 297 bales, the first shipment of Pakistani burlap to the U.S., were unloaded in Brooklyn. Pakistan now plans to build four more jute mills, expects to be the world's second biggest producer of burlap by 1960. The U.S. Government was so impressed by Pakistan's determination to get ahead industrially that it is granting Pakistan $10 million for industrial expansion under the Point Four program...
...decision. Since the ceilings no longer meant anything, Arnall thought it might be just as well to take some of them off. He prepared, accordingly, orders "temporarily" suspending the ceilings on numerous items (hides, calfskins, tallow, lard, animal waste material, vegetable soap stock, crude cottonseed, soybean and corn oil, burlap, wool, alpaca...
They are of varying textures: angora, wool, jersey and burlap. And of varying shapes, loose or tight...
...house of mystery, however, Matthews makes its proudest boast. For instance, while workmen were pealing off four layers of wallpaper and one of burlap in Matthews 6 a few years ago, they uncovered a painting on the plaster. With the aid of a microscope they deciphered the artist's name, Philip L. Cheney '21, who had occupied the room alone in 1917-18 and was known as a recluse. Over the years, the artist has become well known, and his works hang in many museums throughout the country...