Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little to relieve the news shortage. The 40 volunteers, working out of a vacant classroom where school desks substitute for work tables, have offered readers stories on Amtrack and the Gainesville Eight instead of concentrating on local news. The paper has been further handicapped by the nationwide shortage of newsprint, which has limited the press...
...Newspaper editors like to think that their product provides food for thought. Now agricultural engineers at the University of Missouri report that it may be time to take them literally. Using ground-up newspapers to filter water containing algae, Richard Spray, Neil Meador and Donald Brooker found that the newsprint effectively trapped the single-celled plants, which are rich in protein. After a while, such a thick layer of algae built up on the newsprint that it had a higher content of crude protein than dried beef, soybean meal or skimmed-milk powder. Though the Missouri scientists do not suggest...
...squeeze: last week the Wall Street Journal announced "a painful step," told readers it was reducing news, editorial and ad space and skimping on newsstand copies. Weeklies and smaller dailies that have no private mills, no huge standing orders with suppliers and no capacity to stockpile large quantities of newsprint were taking even more drastic steps. Some-like the Rapid City (S. Dak.) Journal-have already stopped publishing Saturday editions to conserve dwindling paper supplies...
...Journal has compressed its editorial and comic sections down to half a page; the Hillsboro (Ore.) Argus has trimmed its obituary columns by leaving out the names of pallbearers. Seeking a brighter alternative, the Charleston (W. Va.) Sunday Gazette-Mail dipped into a reserve stock of tinted newsprint and ran off an edition splashed with pink, green and yellow...
...they recognize the newsprint shortage as a fact of future life, some newspapermen are concluding that economizing on paper may have its beneficial side. St. Petersburg Times Editor Eugene Patterson has cut back news columns by 35% and told staffers to think up ways in which stories can be fully told in less space. Says Patterson: "It's a good time to look at the paper and clean out some of the deadwood we've been printing, if that's what...