Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth of July 1952, two officials of the U.S. Mutual Security Agency in Italy were driving north from Rome to the Italian industrial city of Vicenza (pop. 82,000). One was Walter C. McAdoo, 56, a Philadelphian and former pulp-mill executive, and the other was James L. Hockenberry, 54, a onetime agent for Prudential Insurance in Lebanon, Pa. and wartime specialist in on-the-job industrial training. Their mission: to find an Italian plant willing to try out American methods of increasing productivity...
...credit of current pulp science fiction writers, they realize that fantasy must have some element of reality. And the best kind of reality is sex. Sometimes spatial experiences draw a Venusian lass and the captain of a space ship to a common understanding. Or an eloped couple find bliss on a planet called, ironically enough, Eros...
Getting back to reality, as most of the science fiction writers seem to do, passions seem to run as high in space as in any pulp magazine: "There was a crooning, dangerous, hypnotic quality to the voice--and yet it was warm and sweet, like mrfii-honey flowing over the lichen rocks of Phobos. Mac Marty felt his pulse quicken." There are also adverse affects of mating on distant planets, but only villains are susceptible. "Lucia's baby was born. The baby came at night. It did not live more than a few hours. But it shone in the dark...
Change of Address. In Merrill, Wis., four independent truckers put an ad in the Herald: "NOTICE . . . We are able to take care of our pulp hauling jobs even though we are now in the county jail . . . Visitors welcome. Hours...
...estate of Alfred Irenee du Pont, and who, as head of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville, helped many of the new industries to start. Ball, with headquarters in Jacksonville, oversees an empire that ranges from banks (a total of 23 in the Florida National Group) to pulp and paper (St. Joe Paper Co.) and one of the largest privately owned forests...