Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want of newsprint, the biggest evening paper in the U.S. went virtually adless last week. After J. David Stern's Record folded, the Philadelphia Bulletin (circ. 750,000) had picked up 30,000 new readers and started a Sunday edition ; its paper supply was stretched thin. Many another paper had put itself on the short est rations since...
There was a newsprint problem, but shortage was hardly the word for it. The U.S. was getting more paper than ever, but lacked boxcars to move it from the mills. Last year Canada, No. 1 papermaker to the world, rolled out a record four million tons of newsprint. The U.S. press gobbled four-fifths of it. It was the rest of the world press that was pinched...
...heels of such longtime export leaders as wheat, flour and newsprint, were some healthy newcomers. Locomotives, cars and parts exported totaled $53.3 million v. $358,000 in 1939; synthetic rubber, $7.9 million v. $200,000 in 1939; electrical apparatus (including radios), $20.9 million v. $3.2 million; ships, $18.8 million...
Scholarship openings in this country for foreign students, and in other lands for American men and women, as well as possibilities of summer work overseas and explanations of the GI Bill of Rights provisions in foreign schools will be published on two sides of a normal newsprint page...
...Manhattan's nine dailies are now a nickel except the twopenny tabloids, the Mirror and Daily News, and the bulky Times, which sells its ad-rich product (at 3?) for little more than it pays for the blank paper (newsprint has jumped from $48 to $84 a ton since...