Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creating their own folklore. They can raise heavy loads (up to 40 tons) up an elevatorlike track, and stack them as high as 15 ft. above the floor Some of the new trucks came equipped with interchangeable accessories-forks for lifting boxes, steel fingers for grabbing big rolls, e.g., newsprint. One model boasted a two-way radio, by which its driver could be directed to any corner of a plant...
...newsprint-starved Britain, whose press does an indifferent-to-bad job of covering the U.S., probably only the Guardian would have given Cooke the elbow room for his leisurely essays on everything from Tom Dewey ("a certified public accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail") to Babe Ruth's death ("He was Hercules with bat in hand, but he was Hercules done by Disney") and the suppressed Briticisms of Anglophobe Robert R. McCormick ("Still talking with a trace of British accent, taking afternoon tea, wearing a wrist watch on each hand, and being forever to his friends known...
...Either paper . . . might be used to start a fire of any desired size. An additional test with newsprint of the New York Daily Worker, sometimes regarded as an inflammatory paper, revealed no significant difference in burning quality...
...York Times settled the matter in its own exhaustive way. It tried the burning qualities of both London's and New York's Times, described the tests in a deadpan report. "They were made in three phases: 1) burning rate of a tightly rolled sheet of newsprint, 2) burning rate of a loosely crumpled sheet, and 3) determinations of the advance of a burning edge on a single, unfolded sheet." Found the Times: "In all three comparisons, the London paper's newsprint appeared to burn equally fast, and probably faster than the New York paper...
Muddle in Newsprint. Because of inept bulk-buying in international markets Britain's newsprint stocks have fallen beneath the wartime low. The government did not allocate dollars for Canadian newsprint until Canada, after being rebuffed by Britain in favor of Scandinavian countries, had sold its stocks elsewhere. Last week British newspapers were ordered to cut newsprint consumption 5%, reducing six-page papers to four pages once a week. A later order cut magazine supplies...