Word: jute
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...Roosevelt Line's service to the Far East and India, whose jute cargoes were the foundation of Kermit Roosevelt's shipping career...
...lines involved, the pool will increase the prestige in shipping of the young men who have been the driving force in the I. M. M.-Roosevelt combination. Of these the central figure is Kermit Roosevelt, diffident, able son of the late great Theodore. To his success with a small jute-carrying line was added the vast wealth of that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young...
...Farm Board pledge no more wheat sales. Declared Mr. Campbell hopefully: "By use of the present laws and my suggestions the price of wheat on the farm can easily be doubled by Jan. 1." For cotton he would, if he were President, increase the Tariff on jute, thereby diverting 1,000,000 bales of low-grade cotton into the production of bale bagging. He opposed plowing under one-third of the crop (see col. 1) as "not good economics...
...properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville gag-lines, as The Big House...
...Kermit Roosevelt had formed the Roosevelt Lines to operate a service to India for the U. S. Shipping Board. Jute was its principal baggage. In 1926 he took into the company two widely-known young shippingmen: John M. Franklin whose father, Philip Albright Small Franklin, heads I. M. M., and Basil Harris. He promised vigorous expansion of the U. S.-owned Roosevelt Lines. Last year this expansion became marked. Shippingman Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate...