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...Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When it is processed and packed into about 10,000,000 bales of glossy fibre, probably the biggest output since 1931, a good half the crop will go. to the burlap mills of Calcutta, the rest to mills in Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Great Britain...
India's jute trade, which the female Yules abhor, was seriously tied up last February when the native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year...
Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap...
Last week the only signs of this protection in the Yard were the four feet high burlap pentagons which surround the shrubs on all sides of Appleton Chapel. Now, however, boards cover the steps of Widener Library, the Chapel, and Fogg Museum, and wooden walks will soon be placed on the gravel paths that have not yet hardened, and steam pipes will be put to use in Wigglesworth, Hollis, Stoughton, and Lehman...
Last week, with 83 little pronghorns carefully wrapped in burlap bags and resting in two rows in the plane, Rancher Belden and Pilot Monday took off from Pitchfork, began dropping antelope all across the nation. The Chicago and Philadelphia Zoos each got a pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick...