Word: jute
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...business turn for the textile companies may be at hand. U. S. cotton is priced exceedingly low and people in the U. S. are buying more and more domestic-made cotton goods, importing less; and the movement to use coarse-woven cotton bagging, instead of imported jute, has started...
...asked them where they lived. They eyed me like small animals waiting to spring but not daring. . . . A small blue-eyed girl wearing a fragment of an army overcoat over a jute sack cut short above her thin bare legs, said amiably...
Said Lord Reading, Governor-General of India, at present on leave in England, to the Reading† Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan...