Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada has no New Deal, no NRA, no Brain Trust. Canada did, however, have a Depression. Dominion business is estimated to be at least 33% above the 1933 low. Newsprint to Canada is what automobiles are to the U. S. Dominion newsprint production for the first quarter was 41% above last year, in March was up 53% to the highest figure for the month since...
Before the presses that had spread the luscious face of Harvard's Cinderella over the newsprint to furnish prime fodder for the dusky sweepers of Boston's subways, had cooled, the Daily Record triumphantly announced that the next in its series of true confessions would be the glamorous love story of Norma Brighton Millen. Not satisfied with the chance of exploiting the comely bride of the Needham bank-robber in a legitimate fashion, the Record sought its more devious and revealing method...
...suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber...
...crude perspective and uncertain line, has enough factual force to make a simple reader's flesh creep. At the other extreme from eulogy, it contains about as little of the blood of human likeness. Author Winkler's unretouched journalese is no more sensitive a medium than newsprint, but today's banker-conscious readers may consider the style and the subject well matched. A protracted Sunday-supplement feature story. The First Billion casts the late James Stillman for the No. 1 role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles E. Mitchell...
...President signed an NRA code for the newsprint, paper and pulp industry, which is subject to revision after 90 days...