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To: PatiBob who wrote (4627)1/15/2001 8:37:03 AM
From: The Street  Respond to of 13060
 
Hemp was our largest export until the early 1900's.

Every original copy of the Constitution is on hemp other than the "main" one. (They signed more than one.)

Canvas comes from the Latin word for hemp-- cannabis.

[Middle English canevas, from Old French and from Medieval Latin canavsium, both ultimately from Latin cannabis, hemp; see cannabis.]

And of course, the DuPonts do not want a competitor with nylon...


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