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Despite this sniping, Classmate Bertie demonstrated last week that he still had the old school spirit. Early one morning, a fire started among the newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with...
There are two main reasons why Adolf Hitler should think twice before taking any cue from newsprint polemics and moving armed forces to aid his German racial comrades in the Sudeten territory. The first is that he knows that the Czechs, who have been preparing for 15 years for just such an eventuality, would turn their full-armed strength of 1,500,000 men into the field. The second is that invasion of Czechoslovakia by Hitler would almost certainly bring France, the Soviet Union, and probably Britain rushing to the aid of the Czechs...
...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...
...buys most from abroad is raw materials, but U. S. commodity prices are now at a two-year low; hence imports of non-ferrous metals were down from $19,547,000 in March 1937 to $9,641,000 this year, tin from $11,617,000 to $3,808,000, newsprint from...
Whether all this indicates monopoly in newsprint, only Homer Cummings knows. Solid, reticent Mr. Whitcomb, though he may not want to speak for Canada, says flatly: "There is no monopoly among U. S. newsprint manufacturers...