Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snia Viscosa (Societa Nazionale Industria Applicazioni Viscosa) is one of the world's great makers of synthetic fibres, employs 14,000 workers in 16 factories scattered over Italy. Long a rayon producer, Snia Viscosa also markets Snia-fiocco, fibre made from wood pulp (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Snia Viscosa's newest concoction is fibre made from milk, which it calls lanital and claims is equal in appearance and quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone...
...could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice as well as his self-respect, expresses himself in language more appropriate to a police reporter than...
...first 175 pages he has written a good man's story, a story that many a pulp mag zine carries every month. Not, however, one that a high-class magazine, such as the Post or Scribner's would touch with a ten-foot pole. After that, with the exception of a few lines about the hero's death and his wife, the rest has no more relation to the first than day has to night...
...made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which...
...fruit of statistical labor in toto, announcing that it was "grossly unsatisfactory and based upon clearly unsound statistical practices.'' Nonetheless every Soviet editor was busy preparing to announce on December 13 that some 100,000,000 Russians have voted -census or no census, pencils or no pencils, pulp or no pulp...