Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...
...Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, official guardian and nursemaid of this enormous trade. Last week his bank made one loan, was at work...
Then industrialization began to snowball in the South. In 1914, eight leading Southern cities had an estimated industrial production of $418,017,000; last year this figure had more than tripled under the influx of such industries as textiles and wood pulp, moving from the North to the South to take advantage of lower costs and nearness to raw materials...
...addition to the South's three great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...