Word: jute
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...alarums in Turkey and the Caucasus were not so loud as events in Rumania. There the Government of King Carol, bowing before Allied pressure which took the form of shutting off supplies of cotton, wool, jute, aluminum and iron from Rumanian factories, not only assured the British Government that Rumania's exports of oil to Germany would not exceed 130,000 tons per month, but embargoed all aviation fuel and lubricants from leaving the country. With Dr. Karl Clodius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this...
...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...Butler's ancestry abounded in preachers, educators, merchants. Dr. Butler's British-born father went into the jute business, in Paterson, N. J. Proud of his British blood, Dr. Butler exclaims: "It has never been . . . possible for me . . . to be on ... British soil without a feeling of exaltation." When Dr. Butler was a few days old, his aunt carried him up to the cupola of his house with an American flag, a $10 gold piece and a Bible; there dedicated his life to patriotism, wealth and piety...
...Furnished an object lesson to the cotton industry. AAA ordered bagging for 1,000,000 bales of cotton to be 'made of domestic cotton rather than imported jute -at no greater cost. Said AAA: If cotton bagging was used exclusively, 135,000 bales would be consumed yearly...
...operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected by layers of guttapercha, brass tape, jute yarn, galvanized iron...