Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sized jigger, the skinny London newspaper is a hard fact for a visitor to get used to. After eight lean years, British journalists are not used to it either. Wrote Lord Layton, chairman of London's Liberal News Chronicle, while head of the industry's newsprint rationing committee: "With international responsibilities second to none, our newspapers are among the smallest in the world. . . . You cannot build . . . a peaceful world on ignorance or breed world citizens if they have no access to knowledge...
...four pages a day, the tabloids eight; Fleet Street's 15 dailies can be tucked under the arm more easily than a midweek copy of the hefty New York Times. Rather than drop pages, some editors, like Robert Barrington-Ward of the London Times, have chosen to save newsprint by dropping readers...
What with the dollar pinch, there is no chance of going back, anyway. At least, not for years. Young Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, has warned of another newsprint cut of about 7%. Newspapers can have only 115,812 tons of paper, 31% of prewar, for November through February. The government's allotment to itself: 20,500 tons...
Could the U.S. Department of Justice force Canadian companies to show their books for an antitrust law investigation? The Department thought it could, so long as it suspected them of being subsidiaries of U.S. concerns. Last March, when seven Canadian newsprint concerns refused to hand over their records, the Justice Department served their U.S. representatives with subpoenas. Cried many a Canadian: "A violation of sovereignty...
...Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...