Word: pulps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crook" by James R. Crowell, "pulp" fictionist, in which were recounted the exploits of Mr. Woodward, the sometime Senator Musgrave, also known as "Big Bill Hawley" and "The Old Boy Himself." Last week the Old Boy, 71, sued Mr. Crowell. He asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to award him $15,000. He claimed he had made an agreement whereby he was to receive one-third of the price paid for his memoirs; Mr. Crowell was to get two-thirds for rewriting them and arranging their publication. Said he: "I asked for an accounting, and I did not get even...
Many a magazine lives a generation, few live two. Last week, having completed 28 years of usefulness, Popular Magazine appeared for the last time. Street & Smith, largest producers of pulp-paper thrillers, merged (and buried) Popular Magazine with another of their 15 periodicals-Complete Stories. The end of Popular, like the end of Everybody's, rang the knell of another semi-pretentious sheet which could not compete with the innumerable sporadic, cheap magazines which frankly pander yarns about gunmen, speakeasies, dope. Popular-Complete Stories, beginning with the December issue, will be smaller than Popular, will sell for 15? instead...
Norwegian industries at a standstill last week were: shipyards, textiles, leather, tobacco, pulp, paper, rubber, soap, shoes, electro-chemicals, chocolate, clothing, sawmills, building trades, electrical and printing industries...
...Duff speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including Soviet coal, wood pulp, lumber of all kinds, asbestos, furs...
...placing an embargo on Soviet lumber and pulp wood imported into this country because of the rumors of conscript labor, the United States is again assuming the attitude of dictating world ethics. However, due to the vagueness of the reports from Russia, one may wonder whether the Government's motives are as pure as they supposedly were in the Liberia scandal...