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...balcony, chickens cluck on the lawn, the goat is kept on the second floor. Significantly the one clear space in the house is around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through all sorts of passes, I like to take my pictures through all kinds of variations...
...expanded so greatly that new materials have created their own markets instead of shutting out older stand-bys." Every segment of the industry is growing. The value of transparent films produced last year is estimated at $225 million, up from $53 million in 1941. Estimated 1955 output of folding boxboard: 2,750,000 tons, up from...
Alton (Ill.) Boxboard Co. decided to try the idea to the tune of a $25,000 advertising budget. Their St. Louis test campaign upped collections 25%. With these results to back him up, Block soon sold the industry on the scheme...
...boxboard industry's chief raw material is wastepaper-old newspapers, discarded wrappings, magazines. Only 28% of the nation's paper is now recovered. About 50% is lost in furnaces and rubbish heaps. Last year the junkmen collected about 5,500,000 tons-about half 1942's needs. The defense bite alone (boxes for Army shells, etc.) is expected to take two-thirds of the industry's output...
With a squint at the Government's aluminum drive troubles and a hard look at the looming shortage in paper pulp, the U.S. boxboard industry last week was busy with its own drive...