Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreseeable future, the battles will increase, the crisis will become even less quiet. Litter must go somewhere. Highway businesses will expand. Cars and washing machines wear out but will not disintegrate. Pulp, paper and wood so far come only from trees. And an expanding population must have more power and more factories and more homes to live...
...virtually untested drug has ever been greeted with such optimistic fanfare as dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, a colorless liquid extracted from paper-pulp wastes and commonly used as an industrial solvent. It has been widely hailed, both in the press and by some doctors, as a painkiller, a germ killer, diuretic, tranquilizer, a reliever of burns and sprains - besides being a wondrous solvent that enables other drugs to penetrate the skin and alleviate conditions as varied as crippling arthritis and athlete's foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob...
...biochemists put the insects in contact with pieces of U.S. newspapers, starting with a Walter Lippmann column from the Boston Globe ("That seemed like a good beginning," says Williams) and going on to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. A substance in the wood pulp used to make U.S. newsprint acts much like the juvenile hormone that young bugs secrete. This hormone keeps the bugs immature until they are ready for metamorphosis; only after its flow is stopped can the bugs become adult. When the insects come in contact with the paper, they absorb the hormonelike chemical...
...quick punches then virtually trotted backwards around the ring with his guard at his knees, while the sporadically lunging Liston lumbered after him like some great Goliath pleading for the David to stand still long enough so that the giant could pulverize him into a gelatinous dollop of bloody pulp...
Bombproof Pits for Isaiah. Almost all the funds that built the museum came from the New World. The $800,000 Shrine of the Book was bankrolled by the Gottesman Foundation, named for the late Pulp-and-Paper Tycoon Samuel Gottesman. The U.S. Government has contributed $830,000 and the Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border...