Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a squint at the Government's aluminum drive troubles and a hard look at the looming shortage in paper pulp, the U.S. boxboard industry last week was busy with its own drive...
Self-revealed, Leske is: 1) a mental twelve-year-old with a craving for speed and action; 2) a childless adolescent who had no sex experience until some time after he had been destroying other men's children; 3) a pulp-paper brain which listens only to the war communiqués on the radio, hates music, has to make an effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries...
...Production (John David Biggers) and Priorities (Ed Stettinius). Each division head will continue to have the final say in his field, will work closely with each of the Commodity Sections. All three will get added work. Biggers will also head the Commodity Sections responsible for steel, aluminum, magnesium, paper, pulp and chemicals. Nelson will boss the sections where purchasing problems are most important, such as textiles, food, drugs and clothing. Silver-topped Ed Stettinius will also take on rubber, copper, zinc, similar materials, but will continue to exercise his statutory control over priority matters. All actions for priority, in whatever...
...storm center. From New York to Chicago, from Boston to New Orleans, victims real and imaginary have yelled against it. At last week's hearing, Frank S. Davis, of Boston's Maritime Association, pictured Boston's ships and docks deserted and rusting while rubber and wood pulp went through the Seaway...
...more than 7,000,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...