Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson, who looks like Jimmy Roosevelt (and hates it) and who had devoted himself since graduation to reorganizing broken down companies and putting them on their feet. Trouble-shooter Johnson had a survey made, from which he found that the most frequent word used by advertisers to describe the paper was "fuddy-duddy." He also found that the Transcript's 30,000 readers were astonishingly loyal. By last March he had got the Transcript's creditors to take one-third of a new stock issue, at 20? on the dollar, in payment for their claims, raised...
...pushed Harvey Burrill into a corner and made him sell the Journal. Kept on as publisher by Hearst, Harvey Burrill lived with two consuming ambitions: 1) to celebrate the Journal's 100th anniversary, 2) to buy it back. Last Christmas Eve Publisher Burrill died, three months before the paper celebrated its 100th birthday with a 250-page edition and seven months, less one day, before the Syracuse American (Sunday edition of the Journal) announced on its front page: "The Syracuse Herald has acquired the names of the Syracuse Journal and the Syracuse Sunday American...
When a carload of logs goes through a pulp mill, half of it (the fiber) comes out as pulp (for paper). The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid. To U. S. paper mills this waste was as much a nuisance as used razor blades to ordinary citizens. Poured into rivers at the rate of 3,000,000 tons a year, it absorbed the free oxygen in the water, impairing fishing and polluting streams...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper Mills Co. (food containers, waxed-paper wrappers). To its plant at Rothschild, Wis. twelve years ago it summoned lanky, sensitive Guy Howard, free-lance consulting chemist, and gave him a staff of researchers. Since then it has put $1,500,000 into its chemical division...
...Mills that manufacture brown paper obtain a black liquor from which chemicals can be recovered. Mills (like Marathon) that manufacture fine paper discard sulphite liquor...