Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago missionary's son, he spent his boyhood in South Africa, was paid $1.25 bounty by the Transvaal government for each baboon tail he produced. He got a job as an electrical engineer for a Swedish company, later moved to the Mojave Desert, where he prospered writing pulp-magazine stories about the jungle. When war broke out, he got a job at Albina. He thought the yard's morale needed pepping up, and one day told Vice President L. R. Hussa...
...Last July the Commission on Approaches to Unity produced the "Basic Principles" for union. Last Sunday New York's Bishop William T. Manning, in one fistlike sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, beat the Basic Principles, and probably all hope of church union, to a pulp. The Basic Principles, said Manning, would destroy the Episcopal faith, turn the Episcopal Church into a Presbyterian Church...
Henry Taylor is a successful business man (pulp and paper), a newspaperman (correspondent in North Africa), an author (Time Runs Out; TIME, May 11, 1942), an individualist, the offspring of Ohio pioneers, and an ardent disliker of much in contemporary U.S. life. In his autobiographical Men in Motion these qualities are abundantly manifest. An uneven, unprofessional book, packed with good stories (though his fellow correspondents dispute their novelty) and with vehement personal opinions, it is well worth reading for its picture of the mood of the people from whom Taylor and many another American springs...
Here is a spy story that could only happen in a pulp magazine or Hollywood, but somehow it turns out to be good entertainment, so everybody's happy except Rommel. The picture is distinguished by two things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...