Word: sisal
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Department of Commerce announced and deplored last week that no less than seven other paramount commodities imported by the U. S. to a total volume of one billion dollars yearly are similarly being restricted in the countries of origin: coffee, potash, mercury, long staple cotton, iodine, nitrates, and sisal hemp...
...tracts greater than 2,500 acres, the Moros grateful for self-government, would surely be more farsighted and generous. They would not shy as do the Filipinos at the thought of "exploitation" but would gladly permit U. S. corporations to acquire, besides rubber forests, huge coffee, camphor, quinine and sisal plantations as well, for which there will soon be need according to Mr. Bacon. Like a good businessman he brushed aside the antiquated altruism of the U. S. commission of 1900-1902 under William Howard Taft and the Act of 1902 signed by President Roosevelt, whose sole purpose...
...Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield (Ohio), St. Paul (Minn.), Auburn (N. Y.) and Milwaukee (Wis.). Raw materials come from company-owned iron ore mines in Minnesota, coal and coke works in Kentucky and at Chicago, furnace and steel mills at Chicago, timber lands and sawmills in Missouri, sisal plantations in Cuba. The S. S. Harvester, 10,000 tons, affords transportation economies...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...
...House of Representatives last week passed a resolution providing for a committee investigation of "the means and methods of control of production and exportation of crude rubber, coffee, silk, nitrates, potash, quinine, iodine, tin, sisal (a fibre used for cordage), quicksilver, pulpwood . . . their effects upon the commerce of the United States, both as to supply and to price...