Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scarce newsprint, now imported and sold only by the government, has been Peron's strongest leverage on the press, but publishers have also been harassed by special labor rules. Last fortnight, for example, Congress boosted wages of all newspaper employees...
Arthur Sampsan, erstwhile publicity director for the H.A.A. was tickled to death by the showing, and let his enthusiasm run for inches of newsprint. His analysis, from the Monday Herald, in part...
...page daily newspapers did I fully appreciate the great amount of information available to the U.S. public through the American press. In turn, one of the healthiest signs of Britain's recovery is the present criticism in Parliament and the press of the government policy of treating newsprint as a commodity without further significance to a democratic society. Under current newsprint allocations Britain's newspapers cannot provide adequate news services...
...minimum basis, 1,400 tons of food and 2,000 tons of coal will sustain West Berlin. The coal will heat hospitals, prisons, courts, schools, and welfare establishments. If the 4,000-ton average is maintained, the extra 600 tons will consist of medical and welfare supplies, newsprint, and extra coal (for a few essential industries and emergency heat in private dwellings). Berliners will be colder than last winter and possibly colder than the winter before...
...police; all troublesome ones have been removed, and a new law permits political opinion and activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such general crimes as 'promoting discords or antagonisms dangerous to the public tranquillity...