Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad face in the summer heat, Winthrop Rockefeller for four weeks has been roaming his adopted state, from the northeast, where the Ozark foothills blend into the Mississippi River flatlands, to the southwest plains, where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp and paper mills. The week before, he turned up in the high plateau country of the northwest, where he paid a call in Huntsville on Orval Faubus, his predecessor. Instead of lodging a complaint, Citizen Faubus heard one: Rockefeller had not received the past two issues of Faubus' newspaper...
...Born only ten years ago with the merger of two sleepy sawmill companies, Boise Cascade has become one of the nation's fastest-growing companies by zealous pursuit of ways to make the most of a tree. To utilize waste wood chips and sawdust, Hansberger quickly expanded into pulp and paper production. He added fine paper making by buying Columbia River Paper Co. in 1962, kraft wrapping paper by purchasing Crown Zellerbach's St. Helens paper division in 1964, newsprint and wood-fiber insulation board by picking up Minnesota & Ontario Paper...
...rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other items vulnerable to technologically superior outside competition. The U.S. reduced duties on 6,000 imports. The maximum 50% tariff cuts should please foreign manufacturers in many areas, including aircraft (chiefly Britain), still cameras (Common Market and Japan) and wood pulp (Canada). In industries already under heavy pressure from foreign competition, notably steel and textiles, the U.S. and other producers made only a few nominal concessions...
...Lakes. Finland has changed even more than its Communists. Once a slowly developing agricultural country, it ranks today among the world's top 15 industrial nations. As Europe's most heavily forested country, it exports paper, pulp and wood products to 90 lands. Exploiting what is believed to be Europe's largest copper fields, Finland since the end of the war has developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common...
...Williams and other researchers discovered a substance in American pulp paper that has the same effect on one type of insect as the juvenile hormone. They traced the substance back to the trees used to manufacture paper...