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...Refusal. By 1946, he had brought the Chronicle to its peak; daily circulation was up 58% (to 169,000), and the paper was running second only to Hearst's Examiner. But when postwar newsprint and labor costs began climbing, the Chronicle, like other dailies, was hard hit. The price of the paper went up to 10?; then Smith put into operation a plan, which with his usual flair, he called the "Theory of Foresight," i.e., expanding the coverage and staff to give the readers more for their money, even though earnings were skidding...
...named "Newspaperman of the Year." 90. British newsmen cheered the passage in the House of Commons of new, more liberal: 1. Regulations on newsprint...
...crowd of 500 Canadian business, industrial and political leaders gathered one day last week at a new clearing on the wooded east coast of Vancouver Island. They had come to attend the opening of the $22 million Elk Falls paper mill, first newsprint mill built in Canada in 14 years...
...jackladder to be milled into paper was not the customary heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...
...newspaper publishers, squeezed by another boost ($10 a ton) in the price of Canadian newsprint, have had no choice but to boost prices. Last week the Associated Press reported that in the month since the increase, 57 dailies in more than 40 cities have already raised their daily or Sunday prices anywhere from...