Word: newsprint
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...newspapers," cried Senator Long, "are the charmed free bull of this country. They don't pay any tax on anything. They have newsprint on the free list and they don't keep enough on hand to pay any taxes on that. . . . They are using the mails to bring the Government a loss of $100,000 a year. . . . This idea is my own stuff...
...main office, in the rent-cheap industrial district. It is linked to the editorial rooms by pneumatic tubes. The installation includes a 21-unit Hoe press similar to that of the New York World-Telegram. The press is driven by 56 motors, is fed by 63 rolls of newsprint and two six-ton tanks of ink. A normal edition of 250,000 copies (400,000 Sunday) is spewed out in considerably less than an hour. Since Buenos Aires is so far from the Canadian pulp market, La Prensa keeps on hand up to 7,500 tons of newsprint, enough...
...sheet with personal notes and local news, is allowed little syndicated "boiler plate." If news is non-existent he may, in emergency, skip an issue, but must make it up some day because the law requires him to produce 52 issues a year. Sometimes he suddenly runs out of newsprint, telephones the home office for more, receives a rebuke for telephoning instead of writing. In one instance a Woodyard local editor was injured by a falling tree. The former owner of the sheet stepped in. published several issues before the home management knew anything about it. Average editor-manager...
...Government-by-professors comes strangely. Trained at Illinois Wesleyan, Dartmouth and the University of Wisconsin, he later taught at Iowa, Michigan and Texas. In 1916 he became an economist to the Federal Trade Commission, helped handle its early but unsuccessful campaigns against alleged monopolistic practices in the gasoline and newsprint trades. During the War he helped the Government fix prices. After a short interlude directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made extensive studies...
Shrapnel. The publishers fired a blast at the proposed Newsprint Code which, they insisted, "is a monopoly, make no mistake about it"; shot at the Post Office Department for its contention that newspapers are largely responsible for the heavy deficit on second-class mail; proposed coinage of a 3?-piece to make it simpler to sell 3? newspapers; re-elected Howard Davis, plump business manager of the New York Herald Tribune, as president; went home...