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Mackenzie King's temperance edict-issued under his emergency war powers-was ordered in the name of total war (he talked of savings in manpower efficiency and scarce newsprint). But he also complained that Canadian thirst had increased since the war began: pre-war consumption of spirits had risen from 3,500,000 gallons yearly to almost 5,000,000; wine consumption had increased by nearly 1,000,000 gallons...
Strike's cause was the Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union's demand for, among other things, a pledge that none of its members would lose their jobs if the newspapers had to curtail because of newsprint rationing, etc. Strike's end came when the War Labor Board stepped in, ordered strikers back to work pending arbitration...
...people, and must make ends meet by combining job printing with newspapering. Some of them are feeble sheets whose deaths might well improve the all-over quality of the breed. But all of them, good & bad, what with loss of manpower, type metal rationing, impending reduced newsprint and drastic losses in advertising revenue, have found themselves pinched tight...
...since the war, says Mrs. Reynolds, "we have difficulty keeping society reporters, having lost three in the past year. National advertising has been cut at least 50%; local linage is increasingly hard to get. . . . And we are told that the newsprint supply may be reduced another 10%. I am publishing an eight-page paper now; suppose I have to reduce to four? It would force me out of business. I now act as editor and advertising manager, write all page one stories, manage the job shop, handle circulation. I am still hanging on with some hope of outlasting the duration...
...first U.S. campaign of economic warfare designed to win conquered natives to the United Nations' cause. Over $5,000,000 of civilian goods, said OWI, had been purchased with Lend-Lease funds for shipment to French North Africa. Some 6,000 tons of sugar, kerosene, green tea, matches, newsprint, cheap textiles and clothing, medicines, etc., are already en route, 7,000 tons more are awaiting shipment and "additional civilian supplies of many times that value" are to be purchased soon...