Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good neighbor," a top Soviet diplomat warned Iran, "Russia is ready to settle all pending accounts with you without fuss, but there are certain evil hands which give you a dagger to injure her face. That you must not do." Russians wined and dined Iranian officials, offered free newsprint to neutralist newspapers. Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow, but the cautious young Shah posponed the visit. Said he last week: "The neutrality and peaceful intentions of the Iranian nation in two world wars did not save our country from aggression." Foreign Minister Molotov thundered back...
...Trash & Trivia." But the formula got out of hand. The biggest spur was economic. With little newsprint available, the popular press used what space it had to the best advantage, i.e., to lure readers. Since advertisers had to wait in line to get into the tightly rationed dailies, editors knew that the only way to boost revenue was to boost circulation...
...platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost 20? at Ebbets Field...
...only a small part of Marshall Field's big plans for the Sun-Times. Months ago wreckers started clearing a site on the Chicago River's north bank near Wabash Avenue. There Field will put up a $9 million newspaper plant, with a waterside dock for unloading newsprint and fast four-color presses that can turn out 112 tabloid pages...
...Argentina signed with Czechoslovakia to trade $32 million in corn, hides and meat for a like amount in steel, machine tools and newsprint...