Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President. The modern forester behind all this is John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., 48, greying grandson of the company's founder. Last week Phil Weyerhaeuser was elected president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., top company of the sprawling family interests which include sawmills, pulp mills and ocean-going steamers (President H. H. Irvine died last winter). A Yale graduate and a member of the Yale battery during World War I, he went to work for the company in 1920, concentrated on conservation measures. He started the firm on selective cutting of trees, later got it to branch out into research...
...bunkhouse, 70 men lounged on the benches or in the double-decker bunks, reading pulp magazines by the dull oil lamps. The rafters over the hot stoves were festooned with drying socks. As soon as the poker players cleared the cards and money from the table, the minister set up his small silver cross and two candles and began to talk...
...capsule descriptions of Harvard students is the one that says they are as varied as men can be. This otherwise applicable generalization breaks down sensationally twice a year, however, with the coming of exam time, when the actions of Harvard men are as rigidly conventionalized as those of a pulp story hero. Almost uniformly, they lash themselves into a delirium of anxiety, committing breaches of form by buttonholing complete strangers from their courses and asking their thoughts on possible test questions, and scuttling busily in and out of bookstores seeking condensations of course material or outlines on How To Study...
...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...
...Holders circled the Motilon territory, visiting towns in Venezuela and Colombia which had been close and nervous neighbors of the Motilones for several hundred years. heard enough Indian tales to fill a dozen pulp magazines, but they could not find a single "acultural individual." The Spanish-speaking frontiersmen, many of them outlaws, are tough characters themselves. But none had been tough enough to take up life among the Indians. No Motilon deserter to the out side world was ever found...