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...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt who was deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like himself should save the peace...
...Started It. All this sounded sillier to the paper-saving citizens than it actually was. Fact is, paper leads a double life. First it appears as newsprint or book and magazine paper, writing paper or strong kraft wrapping paper, all of which are made primarily out of virgin wood pulp. Later on, some of it is used a second time to make paperboard, and (except in the South, where some board is made of kraft pulp) 85% of the raw material for that comes from old papers. When the demand for cardboard to package war materials shot up skyhigh...
...Pulp magnified the confusion in paper. Since wood pulp is also a raw material for rayon and for explosives, and since the Scandinavian source was cut off, a pulp shortage was expected. But North America found it was self-sufficient in wood pulp, so long as it could not export it for lack of ships...
...told Rubber Coordinator Arthur B. Newhall, a former Goodrich official, that he had put together natural gas, wood pulp, coal, lamp black and other ingredients into a rubber-substance which had already given 10,000 miles of service as a tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare...