Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messenger arrives as bidden, with all the papers from London. The Beaver frowns intently through them all, giving special attention to the London Daily Express, the muscular morning giant of 4,300,000 circulation that is the cornerstone of his press combine. Soon the terrace is littered with newsprint that has been studied swiftly and as swiftly discarded. "Vines!" booms Beaver brook, and he begins firing orders to his private secretary at so rapid a rate that Vines, who is a mere mortal of 30 years, cannot keep up and sends for a tape recorder. Then off to London...
...sisters, cousins and nephews who are at the center of the dynastic Klabin clan completely own a group of ten companies that mine minerals, raise cattle, grow coffee and manufacture paper, tiles and textiles. They have just completed a $30 million plant expansion that will more than double their newsprint capacity to 135,000 tons, reduce Brazil's paper imports by a third. Hoping to further Brazil's development and the family fortune simultaneously, they plan to build two new plants to make paper and tile as soon as Brazil's runaway inflation slows down...
Latest to drop the newsprint barrier is the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and Journal. For 30 years, the paper went through the costly routine of stopping its presses on each of seven daily runs, replating one or two pages with Negro news, then starting the presses again. Of 95,000 papers, 75,000 were white, while the rest dropped the financial pages for news of Negro events. When a white edition was inadvertently delivered to a Negro area, claims Publisher Carmage Walls, there were protests. But the split runs "slowed down the operation, and they had to go," said the cost...
...young when Paul Revere made his midnight ride. Timber's unique "lead time" is a constant concern of the 63-year-old Weyerhaeuser Co., which turns out more lumber and wood products than any other company in the $6 billion industry that provides raw material for U.S. homes, newsprint, boats, containers and furniture...
Beyond Manhattan. The losses reached far beyond Manhattan. In Canada newsprint mills figured that a cutback of 214,000 tons of newsprint cost them $28.7 million. The railroads that carry the huge rolls of newsprint south lost $2,400,000. "The strike affected the retailers because they couldn't advertise; it curtailed the wholesalers and worked all the way back to the manufacturers," said Executive Secretary Harry Moser of the Retail Merchants' Association. "It hurt everybody." And there is no way to ease the pain. All of it, said the publishers, is money "that has gone down...