Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really want them. What she wants is the love of another human being, and this he cannot give her-at best, he can give her the emotions of a beast. At the climax of their frustration, she dies of a brain hemorrhage and he batters himself to a bloody pulp on the football pitch...
...always on hand to interpret them. Snorted an exasperated Englishman: "In England, lawyers tend to be kept in their proper place as advisers." It may surprise U.S. businessmen, but foreign companies make few complaints about U.S. labor. In fact, Takuji Ohshimo, executive director of the Japanese-owned Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., finds negotiating with U.S. unions a relief. "Their demands are strictly economic," he says. "This makes it very different from Japan, where labor disputes often get helplessly involved because of class-war cries and political hues...
...early days, lumber mills customarily burned off waste or dumped it in nearby rivers, polluting them. Weyerhaeuser, spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better-grade papermaking, developed paperboard that will take color printing and a polyethylene coating to replace wax on milk cartons. Aside from its supertrees, Weyerhaeuser's most intensive research is aimed at finding more uses for bark, which represents 15% of each tree. It has developed a hydraulic debarker...
...pettiness and vulgarity which distinguished the Eisenhower team--present company excepted--been so unambiguously depicted and decried. Cabinet meetings (which Hughes describes from his diary) were horrifying affairs, platitude succeeding platitude illiteracies compounding inarticulateness. It shocks to learn how crudely our leaders speak the language; one thought the pulp puppets of Seven Days in Many only talked that way because they'd just finished Advise and Consent. The truth is that Drury and Bailey and the others had flesh-and-blood models for their artless heroes. And ill-clothed in the cliches, ill-housed in the vapidity, were appallingly undernourished...
...wealth is prodigious. He controls 15 companies-ranging from a cement combine to a paper and pulp plant-whose annual sales exceed $100 million, and his personal fortune is estimated to be at least $25 million. But Venezuela's courtly Eugenio Mendoza, 56, is more than his country's leading industrialist; he is also its leading philanthropist. Says he: "We businessmen always talk about the need to make dividends for our shareholders, but we must also create a dividend for the community...