Word: paperman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week in Chicago N.F.C.C. held its sixth annual conference. High lights: Cigaret paper is more widely used in the U. S. than in any other nation, but most U. S. cigaret paper has always been made in France from rags. At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines. Result: a market for 10,000 tons a year of U. S. flax...
...French cigaret-paper industry big enough to take over the business Austria had had before World War I. By the time Harry Straus was dubbed Chevalier, some 26 French paper plants were furnishing 75% of the paper used in U. S.-made cigarets. Seeing another world war ahead. Paperman Straus was then already deep in plans to move a big piece of France's new industry west again...