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...will be brought down to the mines by power launches. With a new mine abuilding in Bay Ste. Elaine, La., Freeport will boost its yearly output well over 2,000,000 tons a year (Texas Gulf Sulphur leads the world with 3,200,000 tons). With the demand for newsprint, fertilizer, rayon and other sulphur-users soaring year by year, Williams and Whitney see no limits to their future markets...
...Freeport's strike was the fact that it will soon put the U.S., supplier of 50% of the world's sulphur, in a position to whip one of the world's most critical shortages. Sulphur, vital to the production of everything from explosives and steel to newsprint and rayon, is as essential to industry as salt is to food. While the U.S. is now producing 6,000,000 tons a year, the world demand is now running 1,000,000 tons a year ahead of the total world supply of 11,700,000 tons. The new source...
Occasionally the calloused thumb of an exchange editor is arrested in its perambulations through the weekly stacks of newsprint by an item to make the hand pause, the eye light, and the mind reel. As a public service we reprint parts of the following lead editorial from The Technique, semi-weekly spokesman of Georgia Tech. and self-designated as "The South's Livellest College Newspaper...
...Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line, the Perónista press and radio launched a vicious attack...
What prompted Roberts to get together with Pulitzer three weeks ago was the fact that newsprint was going up $10 a ton (TIME, June 18). Roberts' plan for the new Saturday-Sunday edition-aimed, newsmen suspected, at bluffing the morning Globe-Democrat into merging production facilities with the Star-Times -was not working out. Said Roberts: "As a businessman, I've given 36 years of my life to this business. But I'll be 60 next March, and I don't intend to go broke gracefully." The outlook for almost 600 Star employees, including 100 editorial...