Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuel, fabrics, food and fodder. Mass expeditions into the countryside have harvested tons of wild roots, berries and herbs. Nettle soup has been found to be tasty. Not so tasty is boar flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that...
...Indiana, Governor Henry Frederick Schricker told the ICC his State had already lost four big industries-pulp-board, limestone, furniture, stoves-to southern competition. Governor Schricker then urged that the Commission exclude all sectional politics, thus echoing many a previous Midwest Governor...
...Troops. Later he helped found the fanatically brutal, black-shirted SS. In 1932, when he was caught trying to assassinate a democratic politician, he fled to Italy. When Hitler came into power, Eicke came home to head the SS Death's Head Brigade-the guards who tortured into pulp the minds and bodies of anti-Nazi Germans in the new concentration camps. Eicke was warden of Dachau, and there he was in his element: he meted out the most indecent punishments himself...
...Nation is a pulp-paper, pinko weekly in what publishers call the "deficit group" of magazines. Only in a few of its 78 years has it ever made money, and even then the profits were minuscule. Nevertheless, with annually solicited contributions, the Nation managed to stay alive...
...returned to civilian life as a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, in which he was promoted to his present grade in 1930. His home is in Stroudsburg, Pa.; his specialy is neuropsychiatry; and his hobby is authoring books (among them his autobiographical "The Devil and the Doctor") and pulp-paper thrillers with scientific plots. He came on duty in the present emergency in June, 1941, and had tours of duty at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; and Camp Lee, Va., before joining the Chaplain School staff on March...