Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the war, Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary...
...Atlanta Constitution found a way last week to make high-priced newsprint carry both editorial matter and advertising in the same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...
...forget about dollars. Said he: "To try to get more dollars out of the U.S. is merely a waste of time." What Argentina should do, he told a meeting of provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying of U.S. goods to that same figure. Cried Miranda: "We are going to play our role of buyer...
Last week, the. press was promised another respite. Thanks to improved domestic production of newsprint, said Board of Trade President Harold Wilson, circulations would be unfrozen Jan. 1, and the papers could add two extra pages (four for the tabloids) three days a week. This time, the press hoped the extra rations would last longer...
Newsmen wondered whether Pinkley and crew could learn the tricks of the tabloid trade fast enough to weather the rough days ahead. There were rumors that Hearst had shipped in 600 tons of extra newsprint in preparation for a ding-dong circulation...