Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Environmentally progressive Oregon seems on the verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
...PLALLEY pulp...
FRANK CONVERSE does an uninspired job as Andrew Scott, Cole's side kick, whose death in a pulp mill accident sends Cole, who was responsible for the mishap, into a justified fit of depression. Converse is a hard working, solid type, intent on getting himself a better job and settling down into marriage. His attitudes are obviously meant to contrast with Cole's freewheeling irresponsibility, and they do, in a straight forward, obvious way. Linda Goranson works at a similar level as Ruth Lowe, the girl whose refusal to consummate her role as the female aristocrat opposite to Cole...
Moreover, in spite of any general trend toward a broadening audience for Kubrick or Vonnegut, Fantasy and Science Fiction is permeated by a sense of its special readership. The editorial tone seems directed toward a circle as avid as the readers of pulp mystery magazines and as semi-expert as the clientele of Popular Mechanics. A typical introduction to one of the stories might read: "Now here's a story by an old friend of F& SF readers, one of the best young writers in the field. We think it's a story you're really going to like...
...large, with sales of $765 million, but it mostly produced and ran telecommunications systems abroad. Under Geneen, ITT through a dizzying series of acquisitions has become a hotel operator (Sheraton), insurance seller (Hartford Fire), car renter (Avis), baker (Continental Baking), homebuilder (Levitt), as well as a maker of pulp and cellulose and a major shareholder in Comsat. Overseas it has been rolling like Patton's Third Army into cosmetics, food products, auto parts and construction materials. Last year it employed almost 400,000 people in 67 countries. They generated sales of $7.3 billion, excluding Chilean and insurance operations...