Word: pulping
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...Were happy to hear that libraries serving American field forces will be stocked with "Westerns," other pulp thrillers, and comics...
Robert Richards manages, remarkably, to say some new things about the Civil War and its aftermath, and to say them with as much irony as pity. Remarkably, too, he says them as tersely as a good pulp story. More important, he has a flair for realistic allegory...
...Banned from the mails for "obscenity" by Postmaster General Frank Walker last week were two newsstand oldtimers: Film Fun, which specializes in leggy, breasty pictures, and Argosy, a 60-year-old adventure-story pulp magazine...
...Burmese job Forster kept just ahead of the enemy. Under his direction, 20,000,000 lb. of machinery were blown into scrap, 600 oil wells became useless and generators, transformers and instrument panels were sledge-hammered into pulp. Sir Reginald called Engineer Forster "the greatest saboteur in history...
Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...