Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...
...Post-Dispatch, the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat) hoped it would not live long. So did St. Louis readers, who found the skimpy four pages of its first issue an inadequate substitute. To start their St. Louis Daily News, Guildsmen wangled a first allotment of 16¼ tons of newsprint from WPB (which will allow any new daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher to print it,* and hired an apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page...
Gedye was back again after five years. In 1940, home-bound from Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...
...move the papers from presses to stands were on strike. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union had demanded higher wages, vacations with pay and an employer-financed benefit fund. The newspapers, weighing strike losses in circulation (and advertising guarantees) against gains in unused newsprint allowances, had decided to resist. Result: you could 1) go to a newspaper plant and wait your turn in a long line; 2) catch the news on the radio*; 3) do without. There was also a hard-to-find black market, with a few enterprising newsboys cleaning up in a small...
Limited Editions. In Alberta, Canada, a newspaper announced: "Due to the shortage of newsprint a number of births will be postponed until next week...