Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount Royal, and Montreal became about as venturesome as the Bank of England...
...writing, the candidate's literary style, if he has one, will be worked and reworked until it attains a polish worthy of newsprint. He will be trained to be concise, clear, strong in his handling of a news story, slyly humorous in the treatment of feature material. He will learn the ways of organizing material. All these things will be of invaluable help to him if good writing is to play a part in his future life...
Backed by the Chemical Foundation, Dr. Herty four years ago commercially made newsprint of Southern pine in a Canadian mill. Last week a more important milestone in the incipient Southern newsprint industry was passed when engineers were commissioned to find a site for "the first Southern newsprint mill," which will be located in 60,000 acres of East Texas pineland...
Decision to build the mill was made at a meeting called in his home town by Vice President Ted Dealey of the Dallas News and Journal. Here Publisher James Geddes Stahlman of the Nashville Banner, chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' newsprint committee, told his fellows that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill...
...Present newsprint forest area of North America is 100,000,000 acres...