Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been swallowed-but did not say so-by the affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...
...wire from Buenos Aires, where Peronistas are out to get rid of Argentina's two biggest dailies by annoying them to death (TIME, March 31). The sum of A.P.'s dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan...
Elsewhere, the anti-Yankee attacks were brassily strident. Tribuna Popular (still getting a half supply of newsprint from the Government) blamed the U.S., along with Dutra and the Army, for the "illegal" political ban. U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley was accused of "leading the offensive of U.S. capital against Brazil." The facts: peripatetic Bill Pawley had been sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than...
...choked off newsprint, Lord Camrose might have got there four years ago. He sacrificed circulation to stay at six pages during the war (and also to make more money on his columns of classified ads, said Fleet Streeters). His Telegraph won success by copybook rules: saving its money and adopting honesty as the best news policy. Readers generally find the Telegraph's stodgy Tory editorials almost unreadable, but, more important, they also get great grey blobs of news unslanted and in plentiful supply. The Telegraph is an outstanding example of responsible journalism in an era of crisis and confusion...
This week, when they began selling what they used to give away, the Boettigers found 25,000 Phoenicians ready to buy the Boettigers' Arizona Times. They hoped soon to add a wire service. Some Southwest publishers muttered that John must have wangled his Swedish newsprint with help from his mother-in-law, the State Department or both; he insisted that he had done it all himself...