Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make silk, the silk worm reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man's learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon industry. A major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous...
...that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while he gradually began to succeed as a detective story writer for pulp magazines and newspaper columnist under a pen name...
...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...
...Federal Theatre, which has three hits in Manhattan: the Living Newspaper ". . . one third of a nation . . .", a smashing exposure of slum conditions; what might be called the Living Pulp Magazine Haiti which, played in Harlem with all the stops pulled out, is whacking good melodrama; Prologue to Glory, no great shakes as a play, but redeemed by the acting of Stephen Courtleigh as the young Abe Lincoln...
...normal human tooth consists of a very hard outer casing, enamel where it projects beyond the gum, cementum (bone) inside the gum line; a less hard inner body of dentin (ivory); and at the core a soft pulp which contains an exquisitely sensitive nerve. Practically all dentists treat the hard enamel and dentin as though they are dead substances...