Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menderes and his governing Democrats. But Adnan Menderes seems to feel that even a little is too much, and that he can never have too many clubs to beat the press with. Last November he invoked the well-worn dictator's device of taking over control of all newsprint. Newspapers were forbidden to import any newsprint of their own, thus leaving them at the mercy of the government, which runs Turkey's paper mills. The independent Cumhuriyet of Istanbul is kept down to two or three days' supply of newsprint, thus keeping the editor under a dangling...
...exact and complete translation of your admirable story was published in Vatan. We received it in a cable of 5,200 words-quite a record for a Turkish daily-and published it in two parts (on account of a frozen quota of newsprint). There was an enormous demand for copies, so we had to publish the whole story again, adding your cover and the pictures after TIME itself arrived. The objective review of the personality of Menderes made a deep impression on the public here, and caused widespread discussions...
...boyhood, he paid as he went. Although he belonged to the eighth generation of one of Virginia's first families,* its fortunes were depleted when, at 15, he took over his father's down-and-out Winchester Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world's largest individual apple grower...
...exercised on an outdoor run covered with clean, crushed rock; when the sun is out, it is allowed to romp on a carefully groomed lawn. Its pen has a radio to supply soothing music and a carpet of brown paper, not the usual shreds of newspaper, for newsprint might soil the poodle's coat...
...next week's referendum, students might consider writing in their suggestions for the improvement of the paper, whether they endorse or oppose the subsidy. They might advise, for example, that the News cut down operating expenses by buying cheaper newsprint or using plastic cuts instead of zinc cuts for photograph engravings. They might propose that a magazine form of the News appear biweekly or monthly, still carrying a summary of college news as well as features and editorials...