Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banned from the mails for "obscenity" by Postmaster General Frank Walker last week were two newsstand oldtimers: Film Fun, which specializes in leggy, breasty pictures, and Argosy, a 60-year-old adventure-story pulp magazine...
...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...Burmese job Forster kept just ahead of the enemy. Under his direction, 20,000,000 lb. of machinery were blown into scrap, 600 oil wells became useless and generators, transformers and instrument panels were sledge-hammered into pulp. Sir Reginald called Engineer Forster "the greatest saboteur in history...
Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...
...king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt who was deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace...