Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsroom bulletin board of the New York World-Telegram went a directive on crisp writing (to save newsprint). The directive's author: Scripps-Howard Editor in Chief George B. Parker. Its message...
...Common journalese: 'Traffic deaths in the month of September total 64.' Why 'the month of? September doesn't have to be identified as a month. Three useless words total 115 pounds of newsprint when published in all Scripps-Howard papers...
...newspapers prepared for further austerities. Reason: the War Production Board had announced another 5% cut in newsprint consumption, to come in 1943's last three months...
...comics and other canned features, refusing new subscriptions, telescoping editorial content, etc. Because advertising is booming, and population in war-industry cities is mushrooming, they have not done the job too well. In this year's third quarter some 230 newspapers had to get extra allotments of newsprint from WPB. (Biggest grant: 1,772 tons to the Los Angeles Times; smallest: one ton to the Salem, Ohio News...
...Donald Nelson wants to up newsprint production (war prisoners, furloughed Canadian soldiers may be used to cut pulpwood in Canadian forests). But he is not optimistic. Said he last week: "There will be even less newsprint...