Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main reason for the rescue is a new kind of rayon developed by the industry. It is made just like the old fiber -by squeezing wood pulp through a device that looks like a shower head to form filaments-but its molecular structure has been changed through the use of new chemicals in the manufacturing process. Whereas the old rayon shrank in the rain and often broke up in the family washing machine, the new fiber is stronger and shrinkproof, while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton...
...women who have latched onto novelists to be part of the cultural whirl; legions of cultural snobs who fear nothing so much as being accused of having no taste; and a few perplexed commoners who actually try to read the book in question. "You expect to bite into juicy pulp," one confesses shamefacedly (and in secret) to a friend, "and you break your teeth on hard metal...
Harvard's widely acclaimed parietal scandal becoming a part of the rich folklore of American collegiate sex. Having made most of the major newspapers and slick magazines, the story recently drifted into the deft hands of the pulp magazine editors...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Made in Manhattan, this pulp-fiction romance about a girl "in trouble" wisely plays down its drama, plays up its gritty humor, and becomes an actor's holiday for Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen and company...
...specially designed storage centers, which now hold 750 million pieces of paper. In an average eight minutes, it promises to find any one of the 200,000 back records that customers call for every year. As the statutes of limitations expire, old files are systematically churned into pulp. The company has also arranged separate corporate storage centers for such paper-heavy giants as Bethlehem Steel, General Electric and Grumman Aircraft, and has moved into a new field by microfilming irreplaceable company documents and storing the film in an isolated New England cave that would hopefully survive a nuclear...