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...Harold Hersey refers to this incident in his book Pulpwood Editor...
...years." On shore leave at Norfolk, thanks to the new prestige of fighting men, he spent the night with a "lovely little savage" at the home of Virginia socialites. While the Baton Rouge waited off Staten Island for a convoy of 16 freighters to be assembled, a hard-drinking pulpwood editor enabled Rex to find out about life in Greenwich Village...
With more than one-half of the West Coast's paper business in its pocket, with ten billion feet of reserve pulpwood, with annual capacity of 485,000 tons of paper and vast amounts of boxboard, realigned Crown Zellerbach, like International Paper & Power, is ready-set to cash in on the Boom...
...Graustein anticipated. When he took command of International in 1924, he found that the company had chopped down most of the forests near its U. S. newsprint mills, that its machinery was largely obsolete. He proceeded to build and buy enormous new plants in Canada and Newfoundland, where the pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough generating capacity to serve a sizable section of Ontario and Quebec...
...world of reforestation and economic possibilities are suggested by this new paper. In the economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that...