Word: newsprint
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...Completed a year's study of the newsprint industry. In January 1938 the Attorney General asked the Federal Trade...
London's famous "Times" has its own microfilm recording process. The films, which reproduce 800 pages of newsprint each, will be invaluable for safe-keeping of newspapers...
...last few years President Archibald Robertson Graustein has fought the battles of paper and pulp with one hand, while with the other he has built up the second enterprise equally gigantic, and at first glance unrelated. International Paper is now the world's chief producer of newsprint; its new (1928) parent, International Paper & Power Co. is one of the world's largest producers of power...
Charles Holmes Herty's 1933 proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South...
...Southland Paper Mills Inc. finally found its money. Of the $5,000,000 needed to build the plant, RFC put up $3,425,000. The rest will be raised by stock sales, Yankees not barred. Southern publishers contributed $429,000 in capital, signed for 250,000 tons of newsprint...