Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance to welcome a new industry with banner headlines...
...Council carefully called the public's attention to the works of Chemist Charles Holmes Herty, who has long dreamed of transferring the newsprint industry from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State and contributions from the Chemical Foundation. After Governor Talmadge vetoed further appropriations, the Chemical Foundation took up the slack. By 1933, as director of the Pulp & Paper Laboratory of the Industrial Committee of Savannah, Inc., Chemist Herty succeeded in making enough pine-pulp paper...
...Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against 20 to 80 years for Northern conifers...
...Union Bag was severely deflated by the introduction of the kraft process, which is supposed to have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year...
...Heard Texas' big, blatant Blanton and New York's small, publicity-loving Dickstein threaten to pound each other to a pulp in a quarrel on the issue of admitting foreign Boy Scouts into the U. S. without payment of visa fees...