Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most part, their spoken words lost meaning in newsprint. None quoted last week came closer to the common English heart than the words of a British private during the Presidential campaign last year: "Wot do I know about it? All I know is this: there's bloody little future 'ere. . . .But blokes what come through ought to 'ave the right to decent 'omes, decent wages and money enough to put by to take care of our babies. I've seen F.D.R...
...York Herald Tribune dropped all display advertising so that it could use the newsprint thus saved to print 100,000 extra copies. Many other newspapers did the same. The San Francisco Chronicle went farther, dropping all chatty columns, women's features, etc. PM omitted its regular Sunday picture of a pin-up girl. Everywhere newspapers broke out their 260-and 300-point wood-block headlines (known irreverently to printers as the "Second Coming" type). And even the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune used a journalistic symbol for mourning, familiar in Lincoln's day: "turning the rules" so that...
...before. Justice Minister François de Menthon was too reluctant in purging collaborationists, too lax in setting up adequate tribunals. Food Minister Paul Ramadier was too slow in allaying hunger, too inefficient in building up a distribution system. Information Minister Pierre Henri Teitgen was too partial in distributing newsprint, too sluggish in breaking up the paper trusts. The Government had not removed these men. Gravely Assembly Speaker Felix Gouin observed: "Our deliberations are useless if no heed is paid to them...
...news in four to ten pages. U.S. newspapers, paper-pinched but far less so, have kept a fairly sleek look by holding down new subscriptions, boiling some of the fat out of their features, saying a reluctant no to many advertisers. Last week, facing a 5% cut in newsprint inventories for the next quarter, some U.S. newspapers were driven to sterner measures...
...Maine this week, busy Hearstlings were wrapping up a big newsprint deal: a $7million purchase of half a million acres of timberland, together with the most modern big pulp mill in the U.S., Maine Seaboard Paper...