Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have stood by, silent and tightlipped, for five days, while New Yorkers have done without their major newspapers. Every day we have held back, hoping the strike would end. We can stand by and watch no longer. The CRIMSON is bringing its newsprint to New York...
...more than ten years, newspapers all over the world have felt the squeeze of newsprint shortages. Last week, after three years of investigation, a House Judiciary Subcommittee reported: "Supplies of newsprint during the year are more favorable than they have been for many months, [but] the time has not yet been reached where efforts to assure adequate supplies of newsprint can be in any way relaxed...
With about 80% of U.S. newsprint coming from Canada, the subcommittee's chief recommendation to overcome the scarcity and the high prices that result (up 150% in the past ten years) is to increase U.S. newsprint output by 1) expanding newsprint mills by granting more fast tax write-offs to newsprint producers; 2) making newsprint from sugar-cane waste (bagasse), which "could well transform the [world's] pattern of newsprint production"; 3) encouraging other new sources of newsprint, using more hardwood instead of softwood for pulp. If these and other recommendations are followed, concluded the subcommittee, newsprint supply...
...general is real, but both find it easy to believe in him. He is an ideal which they must protect from any corruption, in order that the general may be able to remain a salvaged weapon of a lost battle after they are buried in the slime of newsprint...
...Newsprint. The Great Northern Paper Co., which produces 34% of the newsprint made in the U.S., announced that it has found a cheap way to make newsprint from hardwood, a trick no other papermaker has been able to perform. Up till now, newsprint has been made from softwood. Great Northern, which owns 14% of Maine's land, including 800,000 acres of hardwood, plans to spend $32 million to expand and to install the new process, boosting its present newsprint production of 377,000 tons a year...