Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wound up their visit at Brandeis last week came from Hollywood and San Francisco and from as far away as Denver and New York City. Among them: Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Manufacturer (Period Furniture Co.) Edward Meltzer, Papermaker (Hudson Pulp & Paper Co.) Joe Mazer, and David Tannenbaum, acting mayor of Beverly Hills...
Amid national excitement over gushing oil wells, ore-rich mines, expanding factories and mammoth power projects, many Canadians tend to forget that their biggest industry is still based on the nation's trees. The output of Canada's pulp and paper industry last year hit a walloping $1¼ billion. In domains now pushed clear up into Arctic watersheds, the industry pays more workers more wages, and operates on more invested capital than any other business in Canada. But in the new Canada the venerable giant, in pace with headlong progress, has gone streamlined...
...tons of newsprint a year, have choked every time Canadian paper mills hiked the price. Last week, with Canadian newsprint selling for $126 a ton, more than twice the 1945 price, the publishers heard good news about a possible cheaper substitute. In New Orleans, Valentine Pulp & Paper Co. announced that it would build a $2,633,000 mill at Lockport, La. to make newsprint from bagasse, a waste fiber left after grinding sugar cane. In a year, Valentine expects to be turning out 50 tons a day, get other companies interested in the process...
...Planting and natural growth must replace not only the timber cut down for use, but that destroyed by fire, insects and disease as well. In the South, for instance, fires destroyed 13,695,417 acres of forestland in 1950, an amount approximately equal to that cut for pulp and paper during the year...
...drew clear of the oil-covered maelstrom, Lebanese fishers plunged into the rollers and towed the survivors to shore. Langdon Harris and a ten-year-old French boy whom he held in his arms were among the 35 to reach the shore alive; 17 were drowned or smashed to pulp on the rocks...