Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paper War. Since war's end, the papermakers have been edging high-priced cotton out of the bag market. But when 20 states passed laws forbidding the re-use of any bags for food, cotton men finally got up off their bales. With cotton bags at 32? (per 100-lb. bag) v. 10? for paper bags, cotton-bag makers had been getting by only because bakers were able to use cotton bags three and four times over in handling flour...
...could profitably boost their business by buying used bags from bakers, processing them into tea towels, and selling them through retailers. Bag dealers were soon buying bakers' used cotton bags for as much as 25? apiece, thus cutting the original cost to bakers to around 7?-well under paper prices...
...begin his enormous task of pacifying the atom. Born in Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...
...Shots . . ." Out of this night he brought, incredibly, a diary. He wrote it, at unthinkable risk, on fine paper captured from the Russians and used in the camp as toilet tissue. He concealed the diary in a succession of common breadboards, split into thin halves, hollowed out inside, and glued together again. He began the diary in the expectation of some day showing it to his wife, but soon "it became a private manner of forgetting...
...writers have ever earned the love of their people as has this man whose real name was Samuel Rabinowitz, and who chose to call himself Sholom Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...