Word: jute
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...With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented modern economic warfare...
...valley of the Amazon, in the region of the Purús River, a colony of Japanese settled some 20 years ago with money from their government to start a jute industry. Jute proved a failure, so the settlers switched to rice. When rice did not pay off, they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first...
...shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture shop has made hundreds of night sticks for the California State Guard; the jute mill makes sacking for sandbags, the machine shop repairs Navy valves...
...with wooden plows, make an average of 4? a day and have a life expectancy of 27 years (U.S. life expectancy: 61 years). Seventy percent of all India lives on the soil. Ten percent is crowded in the world's worst slums in the great industrial cities (steel, jute, cotton) of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. In this vast land of riches, riots, peacocks and poverty the British have invested at least $4,300,000,000 on which they draw an estimated 4.9% annually and pay the world's smallest taxes...
...cotton-and paper-bag production was up 50%. This switch was cheap: a few ingenious adjustments immediately converted burlap-bag machines to cotton; paper-bag facilities were enlarged and slapped on longer schedules. Meantime Lend-Lease and military bag orders piled in. Thus, instead of starving on the jute shortage, Bemis Bro.-and most other U.S. bagmakers-are serving the war effort by the highest production ever...