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YOUR CAPTION UNDER PICTURE OF ECUSTA PLANT CALLING IT "WORLD'S NO. 1 MAKER OF CIGARETTE PAPER" IS INCORRECT. FACTS ARE THESE: ECUSTA HAS TOTAL OF ONLY EIGHT PAPER MACHINES. PETER J.SCHWEITZER, INC. HAS 31 PAPER MACHINES WORLDWIDE: 16 DEVOTED TO MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTE PAPER, WORKING 7 DAYS A WEEK, 24 HOURS A DAY PRODUCING CONSIDERABLY MORE CIGARETTE PAPER PER YEAR THAN ECUSTA...
...TIME'S caption should have made it clear that Ecusta is the biggest single plant making cigarette paper...
...Lucius DuBignon Clay, 53, General, U.S.A. (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. forces in Europe and military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, took over the $96,000-a-year chairmanship of the $250 million Continental Can Co. General Clay resigned last November as president of the Ecusta Paper Corp. after seven weeks' service, when the company was acquired by Olin Industries, whose principal business is the manufacture of cartridges and small arms. Old Soldier Clay thought he should stay out of the munitions business...
...were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their crop...
Last week in the close-mouthed tobacco business, best estimate was that since World War II began, domestic production of tissue had increased from 25% to 40% of the total bought by U. S. cigaret makers. With both Ecusta and Schweitzer about to double their plant capacity, by war's end the U. S. may have another complete new industry, reaching from farm to factory, with a manufacturers' gross of some $10,000,000 a year...