Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Started It. All this sounded sillier to the paper-saving citizens than it actually was. Fact is, paper leads a double life. First it appears as newsprint or book and magazine paper, writing paper or strong kraft wrapping paper, all of which are made primarily out of virgin wood pulp. Later on, some of it is used a second time to make paperboard, and (except in the South, where some board is made of kraft pulp) 85% of the raw material for that comes from old papers. When the demand for cardboard to package war materials shot up skyhigh...
...Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export it for lack of ships...
...told Rubber Coordinator Arthur B. Newhall, a former Goodrich official, that he had put together natural gas, wood pulp, coal, lamp black and other ingredients into a rubber-substance which had already given 10,000 miles of service as a tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare...
...bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were rationed; rationing was announced for tin plate, rubber, iron & steel, wood pulp, industrial chemicals. Newspapers' size was reduced. Tin-plate shortage caused a boom in glass and wood containers...
...dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry, but indestructible." Relieved of its pamphleteering and moralizing...