Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between powder blue covers and printed on cheap newsprint rests one of the most interesting, amusing, and frightening books to come out of Russia in recent years. A textbook for students at the high school level in Georgia, English contains many "lessons" that reveal Russia's attitude toward the West and that point out many unfortunate weaknesses in our own society...
...come as far as the border, but had been turned back to Switzerland by the Austrians. Tough old Ferenc Farkas, onetime National Peasant Party leader, bobbed up. Social Democrat Anna Kethly, ailing as a result of long imprisonment in Russia, was on her way back (with a supply of newsprint) when her way was barred by Soviet tanks...
...forced Communists out of some newspaper plants illegally occupied during the last days of World War II, then ordered state-owned businesses to stop advertising in Red papers. When private businessmen also pulled out, advertising virtually vanished from the Communist press. Furthermore, where the Reds once got all the newsprint they wanted from Iron Curtain nations on unlimited credit terms, the Italian government refused import permits except for newsprint bought through normal channels, thus made the Communists pay out their cash for their supplies. As a result L'Unita alone loses more than half a cent for every copy...
...they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press, the plate transfers the image to a hard rubber roller, then onto the newsprint. To start publishing, the Record spent less than $250,000 (including $140,000 for actual equipment) against an estimated $600,000, at least, for a paper using a conventional plant. (However, when circulation goes beyond 20,000 the cost of additional electronic apparatus for the new process begins making...
...simply by coming out. Though the Post itself printed not a line about its ordeal, no well-informed Bostonian would have been surprised to see the paper collapse or pass suddenly into new hands. The daily was in an almost comic mess−creditors swarming, funds attached, payroll delayed, newsprint delivered only for hard cash, and negotiations begun for a distress sale...