Word: jute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
...rooms of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Clive Street, Calcutta, meet the principal India jute associations. Last week the Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant...
...Other names respected by Manhattan jute men are Christopher Smiles & Co., importers of jute and burlap. Hanson & Orth, hemp dealers, Czarnikow Rionda Co., biggest U. S. sugar baggers, Ralli Bros. of London, handling 50% of raw jute imported to the U. S., said at the moment to lead Yule in total business...
...commodity exchange is started without opposition. Importers fear professional gamblers, with no interest in the industry, seeking only new fields for speculation. Such fears have postponed, perhaps indefinitely, plans for a jute and burlap exchange. But an exchange to deal in metals futures is scheduled to open about Nov. 1. And last week, at Albany, papers of incorporation were filed for the National Cotton Exchange, to compete with the 57-year-old New York Cotton Exchange...
Frank Lusk Babbott, retired Manhattan manufacturer, (jute) philanthropist...