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...Sanskrit word for fibre is jhat. In the Indian province of Orissa a tall, reedlike plant called jhut has long been cultivated for its fibre, which is used in making sackcloth and twine. But the best place in India for jute growing is the neighboring province of Bengal, whose alluvial plains between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers produce at least 85% of the world's crop. Last week while U. S. farmers were harvesting a bumper crop with combines (see p. 15), Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When...
...native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year made a profit of $1,918,000. In the U. S. jute is one of the big four...
...their goalie had turned back Crimson attacks that seemed time and time again due for a score. Again and again Joe Patrick set up plays which came within an inch of scoring, but did not materialize until the last frame when Win Jameson and Ralph Pope each dented the twine after Patrick setups...
...visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...
Eleven days later New York's police methodically traced a piece of twine found near Mrs. Titterton's body to the shop where Fiorenza worked. A thrice-convicted thief, Fiorenza had been late for work Good Friday morning, could establish no alibi. When he was indicted for murder, all New York papers except one dropped the Titterton case off the front page...