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Quebec's highhanded Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served an ultimatum on the pulp and paper companies in his province: either cut back newsprint prices for the Quebec press by Jan. 10 or face government controls. Last week, when the deadline passed, Duplessis made public a bill designed to harness Quebec's billion-dollar pulp and paper industry with some of the toughest controls ever imposed on Canadian business in peacetime...
...newspaper offices large and small across the U.S. the shortage of newsprint was pinching hard. The North East (Pa.) Breeze dropped its editorial page ("Some people don't agree with it anyway," said the publisher philosophically). In Syracuse, N.Y., the Her aid-Journal dropped all classified advertising in its early editions. In Denver, for the second week running, one day's issue of the Rocky Mountain News dropped all advertising...
...year's record advertising, up more than 10% over 1954, was one big reason for the newsprint shortage. Newspapers were scrounging extra supplies from such sources as music publishers and slump-stricken comic-book proprietors; they were also borrowing from each other...
Paper mills in Canada, which make more than half the world's newsprint, and in the U.S. planned to expand. But no boost in output is possible until late 1956. Meantime, the shortage will grow worse: five major newsprint producers notified customers of imminent cutbacks in allotments of from...
...reassemble his staff and tackle production problems. He planned to devote Page One to news instead of the traditional London Times-like classified ads, considered making body type larger and writing more concise. But before he could start publishing again, Gainza Paz awaited a three-month supply of newsprint. In view of an acute shortage and the snarl of red tape left by Peron, nobody knew how much longer that would take...