Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed Upon. Black-browed Mr. Boeschenstein, for months one of Washington's most pressured men, is in the middle of new pressures from the press. The cause: his ruling has turned recent good news about newsprint into disappointing news for U.S. newspaper publishers...
...good news was that Canada, producer of 73% of U.S. newsprint, was upping its monthly supply from 182,000 to 200,000 tons in 1944's first half. Nursing deep paper cuts (23.6% average for newspapers), many a publisher thought this meant a healing increase in allotments would be coming their...
...Paper Czar Boeschenstein promptly announced that he would stretch no quotas, would try to build up a little surplus in newsprint supplies instead...
...Dangerous precedent ... a threat to freedom of the press," cried J. D. Gortatowsky, general manager of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. But Czar Boeschenstein was braced to meet this kind of storm, which he had seen coming. He had allocated 20,000 tons of the extra newsprint to 65 newspapers in part replacement of WPB's 1943 borrowings distributed to quota-short publishers. Another 5,954 tons was laid aside for the extra day of Leap Year...
...Hearst-owned American Weekly prepared to bring out their widely circulated Sunday magazine (7,000,000-odd readers in 20 big newspapers) in tabloid size beginning Jan. 2. Founded in 1896, the American Weekly rates sixth in revenue among U.S. magazines, although the WPB classifies it, for newsprint-rationing purposes, as a newspaper...