Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...byproduct of cottonseed crushing) to the chemical and plastics industries, P. & G. recently found the demand far bigger than it could supply. President McElroy's solution was typical. He bought 560.000 acres of pineland in Florida, set up a $35 million plant to produce cellulose from wood pulp, now has his researchers testing ways to use the part of the pine tree not used for cellulose...
...expanding newsprint mills by granting more fast tax write-offs to newsprint producers; 2) making newsprint from sugar-cane waste (bagasse), which "could well transform the [world's] pattern of newsprint production"; 3) encouraging other new sources of newsprint, using more hardwood instead of softwood for pulp. If these and other recommendations are followed, concluded the subcommittee, newsprint supply, which is now "far from reassuring," may become ample...
...economy. Between 1939 and 1951, sales of goods manufactured in the twelve southeastern states rose 115%. v. 86% for the nation as a whole; construction in the South rose 268%, v. 183% nationwide; half the scheduled expansion of the chemical industry and four-fifths of the expansion in the pulp and paper industry are planned for the South. As the industrialization of the South continues, cost gaps will continue to close. Says Tomb: "The South's once plentiful supply of labor is diminishing. Increasing competition in the labor market ... is being reflected in higher pay rates, lower productivity...
...ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that enables him to corral all the criminals, clear his name, and settle down happily in a rose-covered...
...plan calls for huge irrigation and drainage projects for Burmese rivers, for hydroelectric plants, for railway and highway networks, for opening up undeveloped mineral wealth, and for building big, new port facilities. In addition, it includes the establishment of a number of new industries (basic chemicals, plastics, bamboo pulp and paper), and the modernization of others. All told, the projects call for the spending of $1.5 billion, two-thirds of which Burma's government thinks it can raise to lift the whole nation's productive capacity by 50% in a decade. The rest of the money will...