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The article focuses on the U.S. rag industry. It mentions that supply of good quality cotton rags is getting tight day by day with increasing prices. Executive Robert C. Weiskopf reveals that many companies are running out of rag supplies. It informs that impact of shortage of cotton has impacted both rag and towel businesses in the country. It highlights that the cost of towels in 1973 is 40 percent higher,when compared to 1972's cost.

A photograph depicting several workers sorting old clothes and rags for making paper, paperboard, and asphalt roofing in paper mills.

The article reports that engineers of the U.S. Bureau of Standards found that manufacture of high grade, permanent paper can replace rags.