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There is apt to be very little more jute (or burlap, which is made from jute) for the U.S., and no abaca (Manila hemp). Those facts may sound esoteric to the layman, but they have the U.S. Government-and all who know about jute and hemp-in a frenzy...
...were 1,500 civilians. In the grand salon on the promenade deck, a workman with an acetylene torch cut through the last of four ornamental steel stanchions. So close to him that his back touched them as he worked were piled kapok life preservers, wrapped in tar paper and burlap...
...brown made from vegetables and magnolias by his assistant A. W. Curtis Jr.). Nearly all were deft, somewhat primly academic depictions of natural phenomena. Visitors, impressed by the simple realism and tidy workmanship of the pictures, found still more to admire in the adjoining collection of handicrafts (embroideries on burlap, ornaments made of chicken feathers, seed and colored peanut necklaces, woven textiles) which the almost incredibly versatile Carver had turned out between scientific experiment and painting...
...Leon Henderson, all he could do was go back to his office, announce more price ceilings, hope that by some miracle they would be obeyed. Last week he put ceilings on raw sugar, burlap, copper, pig tin, pine lumber. But bootlegging has put holes in Leon's previous ceilings and doubtless will continue to riddle his new ones...
...rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed (TIME, March 10), the U. S. hoped to make every ship that still sails the seas work at 100% efficiency for defense...