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London's big dailies last week took in their belts yet another notch. Since World War II their diet of newsprint has been cut two-thirds; the size of penny papers has dropped from an average 19 pages to six pages thrice a week and four pages other days, twopenny papers from 22 to ten pages. Most noteworthy is the fact that their lean diet has agreed with them...
Rubber could no longer be taken for granted in 1940. Standard Oil and Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
...allow experts to study "the dollar situation." For Argentina, the dollar situation was serious. Her exports to Belgium, The Netherlands and France have stopped, and her sales to Great Britain no longer produce any foreign exchange, because sterling exports are blocked. With her imports of U. S. machinery, automobiles, newsprint and oil on the increase and no foreign exchange to pay for them, Argentina had reached the point of shipping chunks of her gold reserves to New York. By suspending dollar-exchange permits, Pinedo said in effect: "It's your move...
...oxidation, polymerization (molecular clustering). In the "flash-dry" process, the newly printed paper passes between jets of flame and the liquid part of the ink ignites with a flash, leaving a dry residue. The June Technology Review (M. I. T.) describes a new "frozen" ink for porous papers like newsprint. The ink is solid at room temperature. It is fed like lumps of coal into the press, which heats it to fluidity, at 200° F. On reaching the paper it rapidly cools and solidifies...
...nine "national" dailies-are all published in London, all (except the Times) sell for a penny. Before the war, they used to run from 16 to 20 pages a day. Two months ago, when the Nazi in vasion of Norway pinched off Britain's chief supply of newsprint (TIME, April 29), they dropped to ten pages, then to eight...