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From Calcutta there go each year to New York and Boston 68 great vessels bearing cargoes of jute fibre and burlap cloths, raw materials for carpets, rugs, bagging, sacking, scrims, tarpaulins. Homely though the cargoes be, they bring a nabob's revenues to the ship owners. To gain Indian trade, ship captains two centuries ago piratically cut each other's throats. Last week operators seeking the same trade punctiliously cut their own rates...
From Oyster Bay, Long Island, to Oslo, Norway, sailed the Lanai, a boat six metres (not quite 20 ft.) long, frail as an egg. It sailed in the hold of an ocean liner and when, in Oslo, Owner Herman Whiton saw its burlap wrappings undone and the racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf
...also horse collars, paper aprons, body armor, hand grenades, lances, machine guns, artillery maps, gas masks, trench pickaxes, badges, feed and saddle bags, ball bearings, curb bits, paper cloth, tug chains, tea, coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty shells...
...trees, while the College authorities will have the sites in the Yard prepared. The success of the scheme depends in large measure on the care taken not to injure the roots in the removal of the trees. The roots, as fast as excavated, are carefully bound and wrapped in burlap for transportation. The elms will be carried on a special truck which has been brought up from Long Island...