Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary metal casting, molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then removed. After long experiment, several metallurgical manufacturers have devised a way to cast high-grade metal rods continuously-that is, in an endless strip, as newsprint is made. Molten metal is fed from a reservoir to a water-cooled tube. As the metal flows down and out of the tube, a water spray cools it so that it can be continuously withdrawn as a solid rod. The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc. (Boston consultants) states that continuously cast rods are free of air cavities...
Three years ago, at 55, Tip Reynolds started a newspaper. Printed on a violent, near-red shade of newsprint, the Pink Reporter turned out to be a two-fisted, name-calling, muckraking fortnightly. Tip Reynolds first fell afoul of the law when he went after John E. Kennedy, secretary to ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell (who is now himself a "liberal" publisher). Charged with criminal libel, punishable in Montana by a $5,000 fine or a year in jail, Editor Reynolds hid out for a while in the hills, finally showed up, printed a retraction, and the charges were...
There are any number of things which can make publishing an immensely unprofitable business. One big one is to have the cost of paper rise (many a U. S. publisher felt the pinch when newsprint rose from $42.50 to $50 a ton in 1938). Another is curtailed advertising. A third, most dangerous in the long run, is losing the confidence of the public. Last week British publishers were squeezed in all three directions...
...Newsprint. The pre-war price of newsprint in Great Britain was ?11 55 a ton. Immediately after war began it jumped to ?17. Last week, at ?21 108 ($86), newsprint's price had almost doubled (while in the U. S. newsprint still sold for $50). A further rise to ?25 had been ordered by the Ministry of Supply for July 1, but after the invasion of Norway (two-thirds of Britain's newsprint came from Scandinavia, the rest from Canada and Newfoundland) the increase was expected to take effect immediately...
...which used to run from 16 to 20 pages, were months ago reduced to twelve, the great twopenny London Times to 16. By last week all dailies including the Times were down to an average of ten pages, twelve on Sundays. With only a 300,000-ton reserve of newsprint, a ten-week supply of pulp for Britain's mills, a publishers' agreement to reduce all papers to six pages was momentarily expected. Newsdealers are no longer permitted to return unsold papers and it is often practically impossible to buy a morning paper unless one has a standing...