Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper offices large and small across the U.S. the shortage of newsprint was pinching hard. The North East (Pa.) Breeze dropped its editorial page ("Some people don't agree with it anyway," said the publisher philosophically). In Syracuse, N.Y., the Her aid-Journal dropped all classified advertising in its early editions. In Denver, for the second week running, one day's issue of the Rocky Mountain News dropped all advertising...
...year's record advertising, up more than 10% over 1954, was one big reason for the newsprint shortage. Newspapers were scrounging extra supplies from such sources as music publishers and slump-stricken comic-book proprietors; they were also borrowing from each other...
...Canada's gross national product is now running 11% above the record set in 1953. Even at its present high rate, the output does not meet the demand. There are shortages of steel and cement for domestic use, and of newsprint, chemicals and metals for eager foreign customers...
...reassemble his staff and tackle production problems. He planned to devote Page One to news instead of the traditional London Times-like classified ads, considered making body type larger and writing more concise. But before he could start publishing again, Gainza Paz awaited a three-month supply of newsprint. In view of an acute shortage and the snarl of red tape left by Peron, nobody knew how much longer that would take...
...trained men. There are not enough highways, schoolrooms, railroad coal gondolas, high-quality bed sheets, houses, parking places, ladies' electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...