Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waging editorial war with increasing effectiveness against the fortified, solidly entrenched Chicago Tribune, has a circulation of 300,000-plus, but is not yet making money. Nor do Sun bosses think they will make any until newsprint shortages, which limit circulation, are solved. But the Sun's new trend toward popular features, plus a new and brighter typographical dress, is helping...
Deer's demise was announced in a curt News box. The paper explained that it was forced to reduce editorial and advertising content because WPB had curtailed newsprint. Therefore, Deathless Deer must go. With her, in the issue of July 19, went Embarrassing Moments, Beauty Answers, Love Answers and the stockmarket column. The fact that the News had recently added a three-page classified ad section was not mentioned...
...year's start WPB ordered newspaper publishers to cut their use of newsprint by 10% (TIME, Jan. 4). Reason: an imminent paper shortage. Some publishers really tried-by slashing the size and the number of features, by eliminating waste white space, by cutting out distant circulation, etc.-but many did not. Overall newsprint consumption was reduced only a fraction more than 5% through...
Unlike most U.S. magazine publishers, many newspaper owners have been loth to ration their advertising or circulation; some of them have taken all they can get. Far from reducing newsprint consumption, a few U.S. metropolitan dailies have asked for (and gotten) extra paper to take care of increased business. In typical, war-swollen Seattle, circulations have soared-the Times is up 30% over a year ago-and so has advertising linage. On scores of papers the want-ad sections have blossomed into big cash-takers, as the manpower shortage forced employers to plead for "Girls...
There is a reason. Times editors, in judging the newsworthiness of stories, al ways keep a mental eye cocked on their rag-paper edition - a special edition print ed on paper that will last longer than regular newsprint. This edition goes to libraries, museums and into the Times's own files as a record for history...