Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
Petronella at once became "The Other Juliana" in newsprint. Her mighty Martinus, who towers so high above dumpy Petronella that the top of her head is just even with his breast pocket, heartily exclaimed, "Ja, we move right into a six-room house-small, but six rooms-for children, Ja!" It was beneath the dignity of the Royal Family to send a wedding present to "The Other Juliana" and they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned...
Fostered by oculists and type salesmen, the idea of lightening the newsprint page with bigger type is a definite trend in U. S. publishing, though few have gone so far as Los Angeles' Times. To revise its format, a paper of the Times's size starts by spending some $10,000 for new type matrices. Because the larger type prints less news per page, at least twro more typesetting machines are needed to compose the additional two or three pages. Such machines cost around $4,500 each, are manned by operators earning $58 to $65 per week...
...Canadian newsprint production for March was 243,900 tons, an all-time record...