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...Hearst business office bulletin boards last week hung a notice stating that Publisher Hearst had sent to Finland for some of the $25,000,000 worth of newsprint paper he buys every year, heretofore from Canada. Reason (according to the bulletin): Finland, as the only country in the world to pay its War debt to the U. S., deserved some business...
...Then began his "wrecking crew" fame. From Hearstpaper to Hearstpaper he went, receiving the title of business manager in each place while he worked to change red ink to black. He is credited with the idea of reducing the margins of all Hearst-papers, saving an incalculable amount of newsprint. He outlawed fancy typography, thereby cutting $100,000 a year from composition costs...
Sherman Bowles, a big, ruddy whirlwind of energy, was quick to defend himself. His newspaper imports newsprint from Finland, and, he said, the contract calls for payment in gold. The gold was in escrow and the Government was formally notified...
Next day Premier Ismet drove to Izmid, seized a trowel, laid the cornerstone of a paper factory designed to produce 35 tons of newsprint per day, or almost one-half of Turkey's present consumption. "Most of the raw materials," cried General Ismet, "we shall obtain locally, such as wood pulp, kaolin, resin and alum...
Died. William Thomas Gardner, 90, Civil War veteran who, lacking newsprint, printed a wallpaper account of the fall of Vicksburg (now a collector's item); after a long illness; in Freeport...