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Fear of Panic. Inspired by this happy thought, Bojarsky set to work reading books about papermaking, visiting pulp factories on guided tours. Then, using a combination of rain water, cigarette paper and other wood fibers, he mixed his first batch of pulp in a secondhand bidet. Helas! The first sheet that he pressed looked "like a crepe suzette." Bojarsky persevered, made his first contribution to the wealth of society by passing one of his homemade franc notes in return for his Christmas chicken...
...Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
...potential hope of defusing the paper explosion is a campaign by the Budget Bureau to make all federal agencies reduce their output of pulp-an effort marshaled by the inauspiciously named Committee to Review the Scope and Effectiveness of Efforts to Minimize Paperwork. Meanwhile, the subcommittee plans to issue a report of its hearings entitled "The Federal Paperwork Jungle," which is expected to consist of more than 200 pages and have an initial press run of 3,000 copies...
...London, Bernard Holdaway's dining table, chairs and desk were the hit of the Ideal Home Show. Made of compressed pulp paper, which is then sprayed with high-gloss enamel, the furniture is strong, washable and more fire-resistant than wood. It comes in 35 pieces, all based on the circle to facilitate production and prevent chipping: the table is clover-leaf-shaped, the desk a split circle. Prices: from $11 for an easy chair to $19 for the table...
...wood products, a Japanese-owned pulp mill in Sitka, Alaska, uses the output of 1,500,000 nearby acres of leased forest, ships home 165,000 tons of pulp a year, presently provides 85% of Japanese imports. Additional sources are being developed in Canada and Borneo...