Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended the need...
...Outboard Motor 21½ 4.38 4.9 Schenley 28⅜ 7.46 3.85 John B. Stetson 13¾ 3.77 3.6 Ward Baking 11¼ 3.03 3.8 Warner Bros. 11¼ 3.02 4.0 West Indies Sugar 23 10.78 2.0 W. Va. Coal & Coke 18 4.88 3.55 W. Va. Pulp & Paper...
...down on paper now, anyway, Vag sighed. When the people outside know the rotten pulp, the idolatry, the waste--that's worse, he thought, the awful waste, when they know what I have seen, they'll. . . . what? Say something constructive, Vag. Talk is cheap. Remember the Maine. Faith over...
With a Viking's daring, blue-eyed Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Swedish-Electrolux Co. in 1919 and girdled the world with its subsidiaries. Before long, he also controlled the Swedish paper-pulp trust. He bought out Krupp's interest in Sweden's Bofors antiaircraft gun, and started a military airplane plant to make the things the guns shoot...
Grey-haired old Charles Plumley, Vermont's lone Congressman, rose up in the House one day last week to make an announcement. Because of "the alleged scarcity of paper pulp," said Congressman Plumley, he was sending out no Christmas cards this year. And he then & there wished everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. He was cheered to the rafters...