Word: pulp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...noisily protests against the show's happy ending, insists on knowing what happened after boy and girl were married. Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing his publisher's past. But, as it must to all musicomedies, a happy ending comes to this...
...difficulties with the upheavals of the times. A year ago last June, on the beach at Dunkirk, the democracies had a shock which gave men everywhere their first real sense of the seriousness of the war. That feeling did not endure. Last week, with Russia battered to a bloody pulp, with Japan on the brink of another war, with the U.S. facing the decision of fighting in both oceans, the democracies were close to another shock as sobering as Dunkirk-a new realization that World War II was serious business...
...pincers crushed the armies of the U.S.S.R., they would thereafter encounter pulp and eggshell. Only geography and a brittle British Army now bar Germany from the Middle East, Suez and Africa. In Europe's southwest corner obedient satellites (see p. 32) seemed prepared to help in the conquest of Africa, which would cut the British Empire into eastern and western halves. With Russia gone, China could do little but accept a peace dictated by the senior partner of the Axis. If the Axis spreads its dominion over the continents of Eurasia and Africa, the pincers will be ready...
Announced OPM's Chief of Pulp & Paper Norbert A. McKenna: "Paper is an essential commodity in war as in peace. It packages goods for Britain, it carries Army orders, it wraps our food, it prints our magazines and publishes our newspapers. The needs for defense, directly and indirectly, next year are estimated to consume 30% of the available paper supply. The total available American supply will approximate 21½ million tons. Total demand for defense and civilian needs may total as much as 25½ million tons. . . . We challenge you to form a gigantic paper 'V for victory...
...fact that OPM is floundering in a sea of statistics does not alter the prospect of shortage. Many a publisher, aware of the notorious excess capacity of newsprint mills, has been lulled into a false sense of security. But under defense pressure mills have begun turning pulp into products which they never dreamed of, even laminating newsprint into special paperboard for shell boxes. Before many months it seems certain that the U.S. press will have to take in its belt...