Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief product of International Paper Co. has been newsprint. In 1927, its mills produced more than 800,000 tons of paper and pulp. Each year the newsprint demand, particularly in the U. S., rises higher (7% more in 1928 than in 1927), yet so prolific are the mills of the paper companies that the supply always exceeds the demand. Last spring, mills were operating at only 84.4% of capacity. An artificial combine to keep the price of newsprint at $65 a ton collapsed when some members of the combine made a slick deal with Publisher William Randolph Hearst. A price...
...capacity of its 30-odd mills, it contemplated adding the resources of the rival Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. Abitibi Power holdings, developed and in reserve, amount to 700,000 h. p. Timber resources approximate 55,000,000 cords. Its mills can turn out 650,000 tons of newsprint yearly. Should Abitibi merge with International Paper, the resulting company would in effect dominate the world's newsprint production, would be one of the major power units of North America...
...took Mr. Rosenwald by the hand and, without asking, correctly stated the name of his dead mother: "Augusta Hammerslough Rosenwald." Dr. Goodkind thought of the medical term for a rare disease, a term occupying several lines of newsprint. Mr. Khaldah concentrated, could not pronounce the term but spelled it out correctly. Mr. Swift was informed of the date and place of his father's birth. Dr. Breasted wrote out a sentence in Arabian and hid it. Mr. Khaldah recited it sight unseen. He stood 20 or 30 feet from his marveling audience and drew for them geometrical designs they...
Because gum-chewers smack their lips loudly over this kind of thing, literate people are confronted by prodigious bales of newsprint upon the sexual and mental Aberrations of some commonplace people. In the office of the Daily Mirror, an earnest, bespectacled Puck dreams of other crusades...
...many lines to the inch in the "screen" used for newsprint half-tones...