Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncle Robbie settled under the diving speck that dropped toward his hands. But the big sphere whipped through his hands and burst in a fine mess against his chest. He dropped, covered with pulp and grapefruit juice. "Jesus!" he moaned, sitting on the sand, his eyes squeezed shut...
Developed for the Army Chemical Corps, diffusion board resembles ordinary wood-pulp fiberboard, ⅝ in. thick. Impregnated with special chemicals (the kinds are still classified), it acts much like an ordinary Army gas mask, filters out gases and germ-carrying particles as well as radioactive dust, lets oxygen and carbon dioxide breathe through. Against direct radiation itself, the porous diffusion board gives no protection. Thick lead or concrete shields must be used to keep out death-dealing gamma rays. Moreover, lining the walls of an average home with the board would not eliminate dust, which could sift in over windowsills...
Pained, the A.C.U. retorted that it allowed ads to be placed in pulp magazines because their rates were cheaper, their circulations large and many of their readers puzzle fans. The contest, it insisted, was "moral, ethical, legal, legitimate and proper" and Father Graf had "by implication, smear and innuendo impugned the morals, ethics, motives and intelligence of the council [and] permitted numerous errors and distortions of fact . . . to cloud the issue...
...create 10,000 new farm jobs in the immediate area. Another $30 million will build eight power projects to increase southern Italy's electric generating capacity by one-sixth; the remaining $20 million will help private investors finance seven new factories (fertilizer, fruit processing, cement, chemicals and medicines, pulp and paper, woolens). Said Italian Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni: "We hope to merit other loans in the future...
...face of spiraling costs, many a U.S. daily has died in the last ten years, and few new ones have been born. Three months ago, in Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 38,002), Leo William Bowmall, vice president of Manhattan's Bulkley Dunton Pulp Co., decided to try to buck the trend. He and other backers put up more than $250,000 to launch the Tallahassee Capital Post, to compete with the 50-year old Tallahassee Democrat (circ. 14,014). Last week, after barely 68 days of life, the new paper died. Even though the Post was small, with a circulation...