Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like its competitors, the News Chronicle of 1946 is still on a four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ...
...Next day one or two papers blossomed forth with editorials in favor of civil liberties. And the next day one newspaper was wholly suppressed for 15 days and two others had their editorials ripped out. Blandly the Premier reminded the press that there might be fewer papers soon because newsprint was so scarce...
Many a publisher, having sold too many Christmas ads or too many papers, barely made it to New Year's Day and the end of his newsprint quota. Once across the line he was, if not safe, at least on his own. The Civilian Production Administration last week abolished paper rationing. Newspapers must now scramble for their chunks of the four million tons of newsprint (98% of the 1941 supply) that will be available this year-if enough pulp comes out of the Canadian and Scandinavian woods...
Since Sept. 2, when the end of the Pacific war closed out mutual aid (Canadian Lend-Lease), London had piled more & more restrictions on imports from Canada. Almost the whole range of processed articles, from such job-producing industries as farm machinery, rolled oats, newsprint, office machines and household appliances, were barred from the British market...
...Chicago Tribune's newsprint Napoleon, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who had done most to blackball Marshall Field's rival Sun three and a half years ago, when the A.P. turned Field down, more than 2-to-1. Last week it was Colonel McCormick who did most to get Field in.* Bertie McCormick made it clear he was lumping it, but not liking...