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...Time for Flowers (Mort Briskin; RKO Radio) is an addlepated little romp that pits the party line against the romantic line in Behind-the-Iron-Curtairi Czechoslovakia. Viveca Lindfors is an unglamorous Prague secretary who stomps about dressed in what appears to be an old burlap bag, and whose clod of a boy friend woos her with gifts of herring. But soon a handsome comrade (Paul Christian), just returned from attache duty in the United States, shows up and starts to shower her with such capitalistic blessings as nylons, lipstick and champagne. He also offers her a bubble bath...
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...