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...more distinguished for unswerving Fidelity than for journalistic competence; Cuban Press Boss Carlos Franqui was simply heeding the cold voice of economic reason when he decided last week that Avance's circulation of 5,000 (down from 20,000 under Zayas) no longer justified consumption of scarce newsprint...
...amount of trade involved is tiny compared to the uproar. Only 300 Canadians live in Cuba, and Canada's exports to the island in 1959 amounted to less than 1% of its total exports-mainly newsprint, medicine, steel, copper tubing, codfish, malt and chemicals. Even this small export business had dropped: from $17.5 million in 1958 to $15.2 million in 1959, with 1960's first half showing a sharp dip to $4,800,000 v. $7,400,000 for the same period in 1959. Exports of newsprint fell from $2,600,000 to $999,000, salt codfish from...
...Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz," he wrote later, "stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation...
...result is a grade of reconstituted newsprint that is not only stronger than fresh newsprint but saves Field...
...success of the reclamation technique is such that Field is considering building a new $10 million reprocessing plant in the Chicago area to double the Manistique mill's annual production of 36,000 tons-less than one-fourth of the newsprint needs of the Field papers in Chicago. And queries about the process are coming in from newspapers around the world. To some of them, the Field technique might make the difference between profit and loss...