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...Pershing to head off into the dawn wearing the cap of a Western Union boy. At the end of the McLean regime in 1933, the Washington Post was a paper celebrated in song (by John Philip Sousa's march bearing its name) but $600,000 in debt for newsprint for its shrunken circulation...
...course," said Barnes, "various problems plague the small business sector of the economy." Foremost is the squeeze on some raw materials, e.g., steel, aluminum, copper, newsprint. The small businessman also has a tough time bringing in new equity capital and finding long-term loans at cheap rates. But he thrives anyway: business failures dropped to 10,969 last year v. 11,086 in 1954. The business population rose to 4,225,000 firms of all sizes at mid-1955, a net increase of more than 28,000 companies in a year...
...Newsprint rationing gripped the British press during World War II and has clung ever since. Last week London's Times (circ. 221,972) broke the shackles by a simple expedient: it stopped using newsprint. Instead, the staid old daily began publishing on "mechanical" paper-the heavier, thicker (though still unglossy) paper used by such British magazines as the Economist and the Listener. The Times patiently planned the changeover in 1950, when it began to invest in its own paper company and set an ink manufacturer to developing a suitable ink for rotary presses. The new paper costs a third...
Under the law, expected to pass almost automatically in the Duplessis-controlled legislature, the pulp and paper companies will be under the complete domination of a four-man government commission. Newsprint exports will not be affected (said Duplessis: "I don't care how much they charge outside Quebec"). But paper prices for Quebec newspapers will be rolled back immediately to the September 1955 level of $117-$119 a ton, where they stood before the last $4-a-ton increase. After that the board will set prices and quotas for deliveries to every Quebec publisher, and failure by the paper...
...little Monaco was dwarfed by the acres of newsprint over which the press spread the contents of family albums, newsless interviews with Grace, reconstructions of the proposal scene (RAINIER...