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...also negligible compared to the total annual U. S. production of about 7,000,000,000 yd. But underlying these figures were two facts which gave U. S. mill owners cause for uneasiness. The first was that Japanese exports to the U. S. were concentrated in one major cloth classification and two or three minor ones. Japan accounted last year for about half the U. S. consumption of bleached goods, cotton rugs and cotton velveteens. The second fact was that invalidation of NRA had left U. S. mill owners high & dry on a plateau of permanently raised labor costs without...
...time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
...Japan was denounced by members from cotton-weaving constituencies for working successfully today the following scheme, in cahoots with British cotton printers: During the past three years British imports of Japanese unprinted bleached cotton cloth leaped up from 200,000 yards to 20,000,000 yards. These were printed in British plants, shipped to the Dominions, Crown Colonies and India as "British" (which technically under British law they are, because "finished" in the Kingdom), and sold under the benefits of Imperial preference to British subjects at prices which undercut not only British woven and British printed cloth of similar quality...
Boiling mad at this Japanese-British sharp practice, M.P.'s demanded that His Majesty's Government bring in a bill to deprive of Imperial preference any cloth which is not British-woven-from-British- made-thread-and-British-finished...
...Tsarist days to the Nobles Club, but this time in a less spacious chamber than the great "Hall of Columns"hitherto used (TIME, Aug. 31). In all the experience of Moscowite Walter Duranty he had never before seen the Soviet Supreme Court do business with other than red-cloth-covered tables but last week for the first time they were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over the prisoners' box were changed every 30 minutes of the otherwise leisurely proceedings. There were the usual tall glasses...