Future Of Wool
Sir,—Headlines in a recent issue proclaimed that an exporter was gloomy on the future of wool. In the textile world there is an insatiable hunger for yarn. Vast quantities of synthetic yarn are used because it is less costly to produce than spinning wool fibro. The problem is to produce yarn, both woollen and worsted, at about a third of the price it is now. Because such a campaign would be one waged for economic survival, private enterprise would have to be side-stepped and an all-out effort made on a national level. First, the assembly of a symposium of independent world textile experts who would show that such a target was practicable. Second, the construction of massive top-making and spinning mills. And third, energy (hydro-electric, natural gas, etc.) made available at nominal cost Nationally, we will have to act when the crunch comes.—Yours, etc., WHY NOT NOW? July 13, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32349, 15 July 1970, Page 16
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