Word: ragbags
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal proportions that in the first ten months of 1928 U. S. citizens bought 53.230,000 pounds of Japanese cast-off cotton clothing, valued...