THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
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I must give the last word to the leader 
of the world’s Artificial Silk industry—Mr. 
Samuel Courtauld. He is a modest, under- 
stating man. He says: ‘No industrial 
development could be more beneficial to this 
country than a growth in the weaving side 
of the silk and Artificial Silk trade, but there 
is a long and hard row to hoe first.” 
There is much work yet to be done. There 
are new machines to be invented. There are 
new miracles of chemistry to be performed. 
There are markets to be opened. There are 
larger mills to be built. There are hundreds 
of millions of pounds to be made. ‘ 
If this little book helps a bit to arouse the 
minds of British business men to the un- 
imagined possibilities of this most wonderful 
of all new trades, it shall not have been 
written in vain, 
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