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...York Times settled the matter in its own exhaustive way. It tried the burning qualities of both London's and New York's Times, described the tests in a deadpan report. "They were made in three phases: 1) burning rate of a tightly rolled sheet of newsprint, 2) burning rate of a loosely crumpled sheet, and 3) determinations of the advance of a burning edge on a single, unfolded sheet." Found the Times: "In all three comparisons, the London paper's newsprint appeared to burn equally fast, and probably faster than the New York paper...
Captain Harry Crookshank, Tory M.P. for Gainsborough, rose last week in the House of Commons and described the condition of Britain. Said he: "There is muddle in defense, muddle in groundnuts, jmddle in newsprint, muddle in coal, muddle in housing, and now the greatest muddle of all-meat. 'Muddle, muddle toil and muddle' is [the government's] motto. The trouble is that these witches somewhere on the Whitehall heath cannot go on to say, 'Fire burn and cauldron bubble,' because there is a fuel muddle as well...
Muddle in Newsprint. Because of inept bulk-buying in international markets Britain's newsprint stocks have fallen beneath the wartime low. The government did not allocate dollars for Canadian newsprint until Canada, after being rebuffed by Britain in favor of Scandinavian countries, had sold its stocks elsewhere. Last week British newspapers were ordered to cut newsprint consumption 5%, reducing six-page papers to four pages once a week. A later order cut magazine supplies...
...perfectly clear to La Prensa's publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, an unflinching foe of Peron. The stoppage was no labor dispute, but "a new episode in our years-long battle to remain independent." During the battle, Dr. Gainza Paz had been briefly imprisoned by Peron, his newsprint stocks had been seized and the paper had been harassed in dozens of other ways. News print rationing had forced La Prensa (circulation 380,000 daily, 480,000 Sunday) to cut from about 40 to twelve pages daily...
...paper like the Milwaukee Journal used about 60,000 tons of newsprint in 1950-equal to total supply of the entire press of India (pop. 346 million...