Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago two young men on the editorial staff of Street & Smith, publishers of pulp-paper magazines, had an idea...
Yellowish carbon disulfide, with its radish-like stink, is a man-made chemical used to dissolve fats. In the rayon industry it is poured into huge churns to dissolve cotton or wood pulp before the cellulose solution is spun into threads. From the churns rise foul C52 fumes...
...proper hands, it could be pulp fiction. In Aldous Huxley's it is quite as plausible as highly intelligent satire need be. In his hands, too, it is the excuse and occasion for the things he particularly wants to talk about. Scattered in short (but stiff) doses throughout the narrative, they are spoken by a Mr. Propter, the straightest and maturest straight man Mr. Huxley has ever permitted himself. As he speaks them, they are some of the firmest, most beautifully articulate essays Huxley has ever written...
Only trouble with this plot was that few pulp editors would offend their read ers with such horrendous fantasy. Mr. Hoover's answer to that one: it was no fantasy at all. Last weekend he and his G-Men rounded up the 18, jailed them in Manhattan, charged them with conspiracy against the U. S. Government. Chief among their prisoners were two active Christian Fronters, John F. Cassidy and William Gerald Bishop (whom Belgium and Great Britain had previously de ported). Their affiliations greatly embarrassed Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin, who is forever calling for "a Christian...
...years the U. S. dissolving pulp field has been left to the U. S. and Canadian manufacturers, who have ample capacity to fill domestic orders. What the U. S. does not use, pulp suppliers like Rayonier and its chief North American competitor - Canadian International Paper Co. - sell abroad either directly as pulp or indirectly through those who sell rayon for export. For U. S. rayon makers today the foreign market looks better than it ever has before. Completely out of it is Germany, No. 2 world rayon producer. And wobbling badly because of spavined foreign exchange, other effects...