Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a year ago, Birdseye returned to the U.S. after two years in Peru, with another triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...
...nation's basic industries were setting a fast pace. Pulp and paper manufacturers reported their August production at 104% of rated capacity; steelmakers were behind in their orders, and auto sales were outstripping last year's banner records. Investors in Ontario's Blind River area were getting ready to enjoy a return from some $200 million of risk capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months...
...Name Cathedral. But at the end of the month Playboy will begin moving from four different Chicago offices to a refurbished (for $500,000), five-story Playboy Building. That will give Hefner room for a new project. He has hired the whole staff of Mad, a short-lived satirical pulp, and out of Playboy's $750,000 profit (before taxes) in 1956, will launch a still unnamed new magazine this winter...
...state whose 1,134 miles of shoreline and harbors make him sensitive to the merchant marine, he sponsored the bill providing that 50% of postwar EGA foreign aid be carried abroad in U.S. ships. He has worked ably to improve air service to the Northwest, business opportunities for Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does not bother him. As Maggie sees it, one of his values is this: "The State of Washington would have to wait about twelve years...
...nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended on Hénin-Liétard, rushed to the stage and, to the accompaniment of Communist harpies crying "Kill him! Hang him!", beat Lecoeur to a bloody pulp. Editorialized L'Humanité: "The renegade Lecoeur got the reception he deserved." Editorialized Paris' conservative Figaro; "Such fury can have only one explanation: fear...