Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After having predicted that the Russian Five Year Plan would take fifty years to explain and that New York would have to be reforested seventeen times to furnish enough pulp to make straw ballots, this election dope is child's play. I'll go on record right now as prophesying a victory for the silver tongued bond salesman from Hyde Park by 430 electoral votes. Because the Great Engineer denied torturing Chinese coolies, he will lose California and South Boston...
...made a name for himself in private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only one who still flies commercially. A transport pilot (unemployed), he once went treasure-hunting by air in Yucatan. Though he has written many a tale for pulp magazines, his story of the Kosciuszko Squadron is his first book. Lean, bronzed, reserved, Author-Pilot Murray is married, has one child, lives in Tuckahoe...
...Battered Pulp (Cont'd). Newsprint, which dropped from $53 to $47.50 a ton fortnight ago when Price Bros, suddenly slashed its prices (TIME, Sept. 26), was hammered still lower last week. The price cut was no proud gesture but a desperate attempt to get business and cash. Last week the firm announced that its difficulties were so great that it will pass into the hands of its bondholders unless aid is forthcoming. Common and preferred stockholders may be called upon to assist. A committee was formed to protect preferred stockholders. One of its members is a representative of Lord Beaverbrook...
Last week the 180-year-old London firm of Henry Graves, Ltd. sent their entire surplus stock of 100,000 steel engravings to be boiled down to 50 tons of fine paper pulp. If put on the market the engravings would have brought no more than a shilling apiece. Cost of paper and printing...
Sulphite wood pulp...