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This accident at landing was one which would not ordinarily occur and which can easily be prevented in the future by using rock-wool instead of excelsior...
...burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap to make one average sack, and nothing is better or as cheap for sacking grain, flour, feed, potatoes, rice, nuts, wool, ore, coffee, spices, cottonseed meal. Largest U. S. sack company is Bemis Bro. of Boston. Oldest and second largest is Chase Bag Co. of New York...
...with requests for a reciprocal treaty with Great Britain, a maneuver which would drive a disrupting wedge into Ottawa's "Buy Empire" philosophy. Also on Secretary Hull's list are Australia, whose unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. has lately been relieved by increased sales of wool, and South Africa, whose recent boom was largely financed by the U. S. Treasury's gold-buying policy. These, however, were matters for private rather than public haggling...
...April 19 issue of TIME with being the "first in the trade to adopt an 'all-wool' policy (1900)" and "first with the camel's hair coat (1912)" is not, apparently very well-founded in the history of the ready-made clothing business...
Brooks Brothers, established nearly three quarters of a century prior to 1887 and, like Johnny Walker, "still going strong," has never within the memory of any living New Yorker, sold anything for wool which was not "all-wool...