ARTIFICIAL WOOL
MANUFACTURE IN FRANCE. TOO COSTLY TO MARKET. (United Press association.) (By Blectrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 20. The decline in the prices of wool has caused a practical stoppage in the manufacture of synthetir wool from vegetable fibre, which threatened at one time seriously to affect the wool inin northern France. Artificial wool is now proving too costly to market, despite three years’ experiments to reduce the cost. Several mills at Roubaix and Lille, which stocked artificial wool heavily when real wool was at the top price, have been badly hit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20931, 22 January 1930, Page 8
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92ARTIFICIAL WOOL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20931, 22 January 1930, Page 8
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