Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newsprint rationing gripped the British press during World War II and has clung ever since. Last week London's Times (circ. 221,972) broke the shackles by a simple expedient: it stopped using newsprint. Instead, the staid old daily began publishing on "mechanical" paper-the heavier, thicker (though still unglossy) paper used by such British magazines as the Economist and the Listener. The Times patiently planned the changeover in 1950, when it began to invest in its own paper company and set an ink manufacturer to developing a suitable ink for rotary presses. The new paper costs a third...
Quebec's highhanded Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served an ultimatum on the pulp and paper companies in his province: either cut back newsprint prices for the Quebec press by Jan. 10 or face government controls. Last week, when the deadline passed, Duplessis made public a bill designed to harness Quebec's billion-dollar pulp and paper industry with some of the toughest controls ever imposed on Canadian business in peacetime...
Under the law, expected to pass almost automatically in the Duplessis-controlled legislature, the pulp and paper companies will be under the complete domination of a four-man government commission. Newsprint exports will not be affected (said Duplessis: "I don't care how much they charge outside Quebec"). But paper prices for Quebec newspapers will be rolled back immediately to the September 1955 level of $117-$119 a ton, where they stood before the last $4-a-ton increase. After that the board will set prices and quotas for deliveries to every Quebec publisher, and failure by the paper...
...little Monaco was dwarfed by the acres of newsprint over which the press spread the contents of family albums, newsless interviews with Grace, reconstructions of the proposal scene (RAINIER...
Paper mills in Canada, which make more than half the world's newsprint, and in the U.S. planned to expand. But no boost in output is possible until late 1956. Meantime, the shortage will grow worse: five major newsprint producers notified customers of imminent cutbacks in allotments of from...