Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these cases the Administration's methods had a spur-of-the-moment look, gave no hint of how prices might be controlled in the face of a real inflation. But last week that hint was given. The offending commodity: chemical wood pulp used for paper, rayon, explosives. The method: a round-table agreement. Franklin Roosevelt, in describing it, clearly indicated that his Defense Advisory Commission had established a precedent...
Both books begin in the last of the great World Wars. In The Twenty-Fifth Hour mankind dies out doggedly from plagues brought on by bacteriological war fare. Author Best writes with a kind of exaggerated pulp-paper toughness. His de cline of the west is slower, crueler, more realistic, less snagged with philosophical, religious and artistic asides than Poet Noyes's. A buzzard broods over his all-but-dead planet, whose curse is that there is still some doomed life left on it. Only the women are halfway happy as barbarians. Explains Author Best's hard-boiled...
...when it gets into full production on Jan. 1. To Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi cotton growers the plant water also good news because explosive for Allied guns will require thousands of tons of cotton and cotton linters (waste from ginning operation) as well as chemicals and some wood pulp...
Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
...Seattle, Isaacson Iron Works had a machinists' strike on its hands, because "the unions anticipated more [war] business than we did." Soundview Pulp Co., in nearby Everett, its exports soaring, had the fourth best month in its history in April...