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...Europe, Viereck began to accumulate the material which resulted in "Metapolitics." This volume differs from most works of its type in that its direct inspiration is taken from a cheap pulp magazine instead of weighty reference tomes. This inspiration led to Viereck's conception of the dual soul of the Nazi personality, the civilized German element combating the Nazi Kultur virus...
...Romanticism, Viereck believes, is the expression of maladjustment. Whatever its various forms, whether Thoreau or Schlegel, Romanticism is the rebellion of those who can't solve their problems in the forms society prescribes. Ardent seekers after "the full life" may be a Faust or a white collar girl reading pulp magazines. "Freud after all had a word for it," Viereck comments shrewdly. Considering the ancient psychological distortion of the German mind, Viereck finds a violent expression of it inevitable...
Describing himself "not as a prophet but as one who has talked with prophets," Editor Oursler once got Liberty circulation to 2,700,000 with the Emil Ludwig series on Roosevelt, in 1936 bought a prophetic story written by a then pulp writer named George Fielding Eliot in which the U.S. Fleet is crippled in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But Editor Oursler does not point with pride to Liberty's classic embarrassment in printing a lead article shortly after Pearl Harbor which began: "Hawaii is ready...
...years of head-scratching and an increasing number of derivatives, chemists have found uses for less than .05% of the 3,000,000 tons of lignin available each year in the U.S. and Canada. Yet lignin production goes merrily on, for it must be removed from wood pulp before the pulp is made into good sulfite papers...
...road-binding material, lignin is widely used in New Jersey and Washington instead of tarry binders. This use was developed in the U.S. about 1905 by Jacob Robeson, pioneer industrial student of lignin. Robeson Process Co., unlike Marathon, removes lignin from pulp wastes by evaporation rather than by precipitation...