Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish wood-pulp exporters were all ready for V-E day. Long before Germany surrendered they had loaded some 100,000 tons of pulp into ships prepared to sail for the U.S. Their warehouses were stocked with 700,000 tons of pulp for export to world markets...
...last week there were more than minefields in the Skagerrak to delay the shipment of Swedish pulp to U.S. paper mills. Mostly there was a matter of price. The Swedes, who know a seller's market when they see one, had set their price too high to get under the OPA ceiling...
...Swedes explained to OPA that pulp which sold at $40 a ton delivered to a U.S. port in 1939 should now be priced at $80 because production and shipping costs have gone up. U.S. ceiling price for a like grade of pulp...
When Swedish pulp mills proposed a transatlantic freight rate of $8 a ton (v. $4 prewar), the War Shipping Administration suggested a rate...
Swedes darkly suspected that U.S. shipping interests were attempting to cash in on the world's demand for Swedish pulp...