Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading newspapers is an indication of how interested in and aware of current events a man is, then reclusive Yardlings truly "let the rest of the world go by," for only ten percent of Union diners buy newsprint. Even figures in the Houses fail to show a well-informed undergraduate, for the percentage is but 20 to 30 along the river...
Sunshine. Cabled TIME Correspondent Simon Bourgin: "The elections were the most corrupt and boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...
...hard facts. No. 1: circulation had shrunk 40,000 (to 335,000) in the three months since he raised his price to a nickel. (But Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Tribune, still 3?, was rocking along at a 1,100,000-a-day clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank Knox had set it low, to help Field assault the Tribune...
After six years of newsprint famine, the British press were finally getting a bigger ration.* Supplies were now sufficient to allow standard-size, four-page papers to add six pages a week. And to let circulations find their "natural levels," the Government last week lifted ceilings. The press lords were free to print as many copies as they could sell-but free insurance and other come-ons were...
...fortnight-old teamsters' strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had frozen the flow of newsprint from warehouses to Manhattan pressrooms. To stretch their dwindling supplies, the city's nine dailies cut their size drastically. By last weekend, the other eight were as adless...