Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting in Washington to find some friendly method of splitting up the world's raw materials. An allocation plan for sulphur has already been drawn up, and plans are soon due for lead and zinc. The conference has already sent an emergency supply of 3,000 tons of newsprint to France...
Wherever Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins went on a recent round-the-world trip, foreign editors confronted him with the same angry charge: the U.S. press is stifling world press freedom by its strangle hold on newsprint. In India, Greece, France, Italy, Egypt and Pakistan, says Editor Cousins in the current S.R.L., "invariably I would be asked . . . how did we square [our view of press freedom] with the incredible difficulties facing the world free press largely as a result of American manipulation of sources of paper supply...
...have become desperate. We have been forced to pay up to $300 a ton for paper that costs the American newspaper publisher from $100 to $125 per ton." He noted plaintively that the paper used for one big Sunday edition of a single U.S. newspaper would fill his newsprint needs for nine years...
Cousins figured that the U.S.-with one-seventeenth of the world's population -uses up 65% of the 9.7 million ton world newsprint supply. He thinks U.S. publishers can all shave their supply slightly, contribute the paper to a pool for foreign publishers. Said Cousins: "At a rough estimate, 250,000 tons made available to the press of the world would meet the present total emergency outside America. This would be 4% of American consumption [and for each U.S. newspaper] might average out to less than a page...
Twelve major Ontario (Canada) paper manufacturers last week worked out a tentative agreement with union leaders on another way to tackle the world newsprint problem. Key provision: skilled paper makers will give up twelve of their Sunday holidays each year (at time-and-a-half pay) to produce extra newsprint exclusively for democratic users in Europe and Asia. Estimated 1951 increase, if all Ontario mills sign up: 42,000 tons...