Word: pulping
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...Planting and natural growth must replace not only the timber cut down for use, but that destroyed by fire, insects and disease as well. In the South, for instance, fires destroyed 13,695,417 acres of forestland in 1950, an amount approximately equal to that cut for pulp and paper during the year...
...drew clear of the oil-covered maelstrom, Lebanese fishers plunged into the rollers and towed the survivors to shore. Langdon Harris and a ten-year-old French boy whom he held in his arms were among the 35 to reach the shore alive; 17 were drowned or smashed to pulp on the rocks...
Question of Pulp...
...only the great writers who trademark their work. Lesser authors, too, car. take the language in their bare hands and mash it into a pulp which is peculiarly their own. Thus, although many of Shakespeare's best lines might have been written by one or another of his contemporaries, no living writer can quite reproduce the "feel" of a characteristic line by Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch...
...Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping $135 million (31 billion Finnmark) trade surplus...