Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Bear. Into the port of Buenos Aires hove the S.S. Akademik Krilov with new Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev and a cargo of scarce newsprint. The Ambassador was expected to sign a new trade treaty; the newsprint backed...
Last week all Parisian newspapers were permitted to increase to four pages, and to double their price (to about three cents). For some of the postwar hopefuls, born of adversity, this meant the biggest crisis of all: they had survived the worst days of short newsprint when expenses were low and they did not need large (or too competent) staffs. Now the competition would be stiffer. Gossip was that at least six of the dailies would be lucky to survive the coming year...
...Guatemala, the Government shut off all newsprint to two papers. Reason: their quota was needed for an anti-illiteracy campaign...
Woods and his amateur woodsmen sweated out six carloads of logs, triumphantly sent them off to the paper mill. In return, the World got 40 tons of newsprint, enough to see it through the month. Its 68-year-old publisher hadn't had so much fun since he ran off with the circus nine years ago, to spend five days as a clown...
Twenty miles from Portland, at the little old town of West Linn on the Willamette River, we stopped off at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. There Crown Zellerbach is converting a newsprint machine to make the kind of book paper we need to print TIME on. They are also installing a new-type coating machine to coat the paper, using a method which Time Inc. pioneered. As you probably know, paper is scarce, but when these machines start producing we expect the quality of paper in the copies we print on the Pacific Coast to be considerably improved...