Word: newsprint
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which limit the import of publications and motion pictures, the newsprint shortage, and restrictions of movement by news reporters and photographers. In spaces provided for "other" barriers, 15 of the ministers specified the diversity of languages and need for a universal language...
Since World War II, Canadian newsprint prices have shot up from $61 per ton in New York to $116. After last July's $10 boost, U.S. publishers, who get 90% of their newsprint from Canada, complained so vehemently that the Canadian and U.S. governments agreed to consult before any new price rise. But last week came another piece of bad news: the Canadian government authorized an increase of another $10 next month. To justify the price hike, newsprint makers explained that at the time of the last boost, $116 in U.S. money was worth $123.40 Canadian. But since then...
...United States to dominate newspapers in the Western Hemisphere." A fortnight ago, when I.A.P.A.'s eleven-nation board met in Panama, it passed a stinging resolution condemning Peron's seizure of La Prensa, Argentina's once-great independent newspaper. The board also drafted a newsprint-sharing plan to help Latin American publications, leaving Argentina out in the cold...
...finger at the left-field stands without getting a banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
...Commissioner's office tottered 77-year-old Rudolf Ullstein, on the arm of his nephew Karl. As he signed the document of restitution, tears of joy streamed down the old man's face. With his property he got problems galore-back taxes, licenses, scant and high-priced newsprint. But these will be problems for Karl and his cousins, who will run Ullstein's. For old Rudolf, victory alone was enough. "Now," said he, "I can walk through the front door of my house again...