Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums...
Death March. Each day Fuji's 150 paper mills pour 2,000,000 tons of raw waste into Tagonoura's waters. The catch of cherry-blossom prawns, a gourmet delicacy unique to the area, has been halved in recent years. Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 ft. to 18 ft.-too shallow for even small freighters...
...attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations of San Franciscans grew up on pulp-magazine accounts of their exploits...
Director Frank Perry and his scenarist wife Eleanor have a bad habit of taking important themes and mashing them into pulp. They did it with mental illness (David and Lisa) and youth and violence (Last Summer). Now, with Diary of a Mad Housewife, they have reduced the agonies of middle-class marriage to a snide, skin-deep Cosmopolitan-style short story of social climbing and terribly sophisticated adultery...
...boom is regenerated, it may not directly affect two persistent areas of poverty?seasonal unemployment in the fishing and wood-pulp industries, and the exclusion of the natives from the economy. But it would obviously benefit the economy generally, especially the real estate, construction, retail-trade and mineral-exploration industries. The key question is what Alaska will do with the cash that oil pays the state in leases and royalties. Alaskan Economist Arlon R. Tussing suggests that "the only way to guarantee that the money does any good to most of us is to hand it out to the people...