Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year the Hearstpapers, largest consumers of newsprint in the world, use approximately 465,000 tons of white, green, pink and peach colored paper. Last year hard-hitting President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper Co. (subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.) got the contract to supply Hearst with newsprint for five years at $55.20 per ton. Later he fought-and bested-the premiers of Quebec and Ontario when they tried to up the price to $60 (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). But the position of a U. S. paper company in Canada is not an easy one. More- over...
Pulp. Of particular concern to the U. S. is Canada's control of the newsprint paper supply. Minister MacNider will have to work against the Provincial movement to raise the price of this commodity...
...that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover a new and concrete argument with which to push his building expansion program...
...London Daily Mail, London Evening News, Sunday Dispatch, Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd.), consolidated with Canada Power & Paper Corp. (controlled by Sir Herbert Samuel Holt and James Henry Gundy who recently [TIME, June 2] consolidated Canadian steel and coal properties). The combined companies, 97% British and Canadian controlled, will have daily newsprint capacity of 2,500 tons, largest in British Empire...
Chief business done by the A. N. P. A.: passing a resolution against a five-day week for publishing personnel; a resolution that each member make his own decision regarding the proposed increased price of Canadian newsprint (TIME, Dec. 23). Discussions: on the competition of radio as a medium of dispensing news; on the evils of censorship laws. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times was made President of the Association...