Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge defense investment delivered Alaska into Washington's thrall. Although the fishing and wood-pulp industries were greatly strengthened in the mid-1950s, they did little to alter the flimsy, somewhat colonial economy. Even the discovery of medium-sized oilfields around the Kenai Peninsula and the achievement of statehood in 1959 barely made a difference. Among the few changes was the rising influence of Japan, which now takes 95% of Alaska's exports of minerals, wood and liquefied natural gas. Japan is also investing heavily in Alaska fisheries, pulp mills and mines. But Washington maintains the military bases, accounts...
...students of pulp are aware, when a wife steps out of line, clouds form, hearts crack and marriages eventually heal. Old Will is left in Tennessee muttering, "I'll wait for ya; I ain't never going ta die." Indeed he won't. Fifty years from now he will still be surfacing as temptation in overalls, a persistent figure in women's fiction from D.H. Lawrence to Jacqueline Susann...
...scientists point to other products that consume vast amounts of power and have unfortunate side effects-for example, the serious water pollution that is caused by runoff from nitrogen fertilizer and the manufacture of pulp and paper. Instead of throwing away paper, which accounts for 80% of the trash disposal problem, Americans should reprocess it to make more paper and save power as well. Meantime, alternate sources of energy should be harnessed as quickly as possible. They could include nuclear fusion, sunlight, even the earth's own heat...
Every year sees the appearance of fictional contrivances that pause briefly as larvae in book form before butterflying their way onto the screen. But Veteran Pulp Writer Lawrence Sanders has achieved some sort of distinction in the genre. In his very first try at a hardcover book he has created a dreadful hybrid: part novel, part script. It has been a bestseller since the day it left its publisher's cocoon some weeks ago. Grateful Columbia Pictures has already snapped...
Despite his skill, legal fees were scarce in the early Depression. To augment them, he turned to pulp writing, finally giving up the law when money began to roll in from Perry Mason. Gardner's concern for the underdog endured long after he achieved literary success. In 1948, he founded the Court of Last Resort, a private organization to aid prisoners whom he believed had been unjustly confined. He gave frequent testimony against capital punishment and often championed conservation projects against powerful interests. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who stopped hunting with a gun in favor...