Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paperboard 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...
...restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...
Broadway, meanwhile, is hastily thumbing over some of Avery Hopwood's other dead tropical fruit-Fair and Warmer, The Gold Diggers, Getting Gertie's Garter, The Demi-Virgin...
...platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from distributors one old record for every three new ones bought. Reason: reclaimed materials stretch virgin shellac three times as far. The man in the street did not yet have to chip in with old records, but many retail shops were angling for them, paying 2½? to 3? a record...
Charles F. Brooks, to prepare for publication a third volume entitled "Climate and Weather of Puerto Rice and the Virgin Islands," and to publish a monograph entitled "Filter Measurements of Solar Radiation at Blue Hill Observatory...