Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into a beater vat. When the last coupon had disappeared into the bubbling mass of pulp, the inspectors went home...
Last September WPTB began getting anonymous tips that even pulp was not the final solution. Smudged coupons began to show up. WPTB called in the Mounties. By last week indictments had been voted against 48 people, ranging from Hull grocer-alderman J. Arthur Lavigne to Eddy employees. So far 16 have been convicted (fines: $50' to $800) and Canada's tightest black market ring has been smashed...
...inside men, Canadian authorities charged, were Eddy plant superintendent Howard Lamb and a handful of other employees. They had drilled two holes in the sides of the chute leading to the pulp vat, so that some of the coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...
...pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes. Within a few weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced...
...paper, the story of "It's a Wonderful Life" might appeal to pulp-magazine addicts and people who don't know the truth about Santa Claus. On paper, it would hardly suggest to a normal mind that its transformation into movie form could do anything but heighten to the point of nausea its sentimental hokum and turn-of-the-century American idealism. On the screen, however, it becomes as entertaining, as moving, as funny and sad--in short, as fine a picture as ever came out of Hollywood...