Word: papermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those years produced a great many mergers and acquisitions which papermen like to describe as "vertical integration." Where the industry was once cluttered with small companies making bags and boxes from paper that they bought from big mills, it is now dominated by a handful of large companies whose operations begin in the forests and end with the final box. The greater capital of the big companies has allowed them to put more money into the development of new uses for paper...
Tiamat marries the editor's daughter, who, like all of the author's women, is impossibly beautiful, strong, passionate, lov ing and wise (for instance, she knows that as miners get silicosis. matadors are gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures...