Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anticipation. Best of all, the Dominion's markets for 1947 seemed likely to be as good as in 1946. Her 110 pulp and paper mills, the Dominion's largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher...
...held Tommy flat on the living room couch, Dr. Stanley swiftly cut open his windpipe, used a safety pin as a spring to keep the hole open. Air reached Tommy's lungs; he began to breathe again. Later, at a hospital, a surgeon finished the job, extracted orange pulp and seeds from Tommy's throat, sewed...
...found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
Other strikes had throttled other supply arteries. There was little salt, window glass, and no milk bottles. The output of soap, rayon, pulp and chemicals was down to a trickle. Without counting steel, the loss to production was staggering. In the first seven months of 1946, strikes cost Canada 2,544.581 man-days (v. 128,208 in the same period of 1945). And some 21,000 workers, in addition to the 11,000 in steel, had been on strike in rubber, mines and in the copper, brass and electrical industries for from ten to 17 weeks. All these major disputes...
...doctors' most notable progress, points out Author Berg, has been in treating paralyzed patients, thanks to Sister Kenny's physical therapy. Also promising: the rivet-gun technique developed by California Surgeon Harvey Billig, who pounds paralyzed muscles into a pulp and crushes the nerves attached to them, thereby stimulating the growth of new nerve endings and restoring strength to the muscles by bringing more muscle fibers into play...