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...German people, led and encouraged into a true Christian way, with the German churches built again into the fiber and framework of Christendom, could make its good contribution to Europe and the world. . . . But we are waiting too long...
...Fiber Eliminates Flight Noise...
...tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...
...ancient fiber (the Egyptians wrapped mummies in ramie cloth), ramie is the world's best for many purposes. But it is hard to separate the bark (decorticate) from the ramie fiber. To date, decortication has been done economically only in the Orient with coolie hand labor. The plant thrives in the South, but ramie has failed in the U.S. as a commercial fiber, for lack of an efficient mechanical decorticator...
Although cotton is still the world's most important fiber, American cotton "no longer can take its markets for granted." Reason: in the last ten years, the price of U.S. cotton has been artificially boosted by the cotton bloc from 12? a pound to 23?. The gap between the U.S. price and the world price has widened until now American cotton costs 6? more a pound. Result: foreign consumption of U.S. cotton has been cut in half. Moreover, rayon has moved into what's left of the market...