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...million, her credit is poor, her currency has slumped to 28 pesos to the dollar on the free market (legal rate: 14), her people are feeling the pinch of inflation and are threatened with shortages of fuel, farm and industrial machinery, washing machines, electric stoves, rolling stock and newsprint...
Current interest on the topic centers around the Executive order restricting the right of government agencies to issue news statements. Other issues which will be discussed are slander in newsprint; the influence of advertisers and political parties on papers' editorial policies; the decrease in the number of newspapers, which threatens freedom of the press; and the possibility of the federal government's subsidizing or even publishing a paper...
...month net rose from $10.4 million to $12.2 million, Container Corp.'s from $7,300,000 to $11.2 million. Oils, with their favorable depletion allowance for taxes, were still gaining; Atlantic Refining's nine-month net rose from $27.8 million to $31.9 million. Big price rises in newsprint enabled St. Regis Paper to boost its nine-month net from $7,000,000 to a whopping $12.8 million. Utilities, which have succeeded in getting numerous rate increases, were also gaining: A.T. & T.'s third-quarter net rose from $73.8 million to $79.7 million. And there were comebacks among...
...last week jacked their prices up from 7? to a dime. The city's fifth paper, the tabloid Mirror, jumped from 5? to 7?. Explained Hearst's Examiner: "It costs just three times as much to print and distribute the Examiner today as it did in 1940." Newsprint costs alone had rocketed from...
Like all U.S. dailies, the News is plagued by mounting newsprint prices and production costs. And its newest, breeziest competitor, the three-year-old afternoon tabloid Mirror, is taking more & more of its readers...