Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemp. The U.S. gets over 90% of its hemp fiber from the Philippines, especially the Province of Davao, where most of the growers and exporters are Japanese. No official figures are available of bales on hand, but estimates place reserves at six to eight months' supply...
Such a war would center in the South China Sea, since it is through these waters that we get most of our rubber, tungsten, manila hemp, tin and other essential raw materials. Likewise a large part of Japan's necessities flow over this route...
This hoard of modern art came from the rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly...
...freighters ply routes new to them-around the Cape of Good Hope, for example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...
Fleischauer, who is an expert on the Dutch Elm Discase, spends his summers climbing Elm trees for the Government Dutch Elm Disease Control Committee. Feeling that he needed practice, he attached a half-inch hemp rope to a third floor radiator, let it down the stairwell and began his ascent while fearful room-mates clustered around...