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...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...
Anthropological studies of the natives will be made by Mr. Bowles in the Ladak country, ju which the base camp will be located. The people are known as Ladaki, and are almost entirely of Tibetan stock. They are Lama Buddhists in religion. The famed Cashmir wool comes from Ladak...
...over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...
Little swatches of cloth, in gay colors and designs, reached the U. S. last week from Italy, accompanied by such explanations as: " 'Wooden overcoats' for live Fascists the rage this season.'' Some of the samples resembled wool or flannel, others mercerized cotton. All were specimens of Sniafiocco, a textile made from wood pulp and lately developed by engineers of Italy's big Snia Viscosa, makers of artificial silk...
...cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton (7 lire against 5.50 per kilo) Sniafiocco textiles cost less than cotton cloth (3 to 8 lire against 10 to 15 lire per metre). Sniafiocco fabrics of varying texture and appearance can be made by admixing small amounts of wool or hemp...