Word: newsprint
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...Shaw, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Rebecca West and Elizabeth Bowen. A weekly feature is the barbed verses of Sagittarius (Olga Katzin, 54, a housewife who makes daily trips to the cubbyhole London office where she writes her poems). Recently, Sagittarius winged the government on the newsprint shortage. Said Sagittarius...
...little newsprint, shortly to be less, Outrages and insults the British Press A little muddle makes a pretty mess...
...powerful as Juan Perón is in Argentina, he has not dared to shut down critical La Prensa (circ. 400,000) outright. But he has used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...
...crisp, accurate writing, has made most of the day-to-day journalistic judgments at the outspokenly Tory Telegraph. Not long after Watson moved into the editor's chair, the Telegraph had only 84,000 readers; in 1947, its circulation hit 1,000,000. (Later, in the postwar newsprint shortage, the Telegraph made a voluntary circulation cut of 100,000, has been moving steadily back toward the million mark since more newsprint became available...
Just a few weeks ago, the Argentine government gave assurances that it would distribute its controlled newsprint supplies equitably to all newspapers (TIME, March 27). But in Buenos Aires last week, La Prensa, the. capital's famed and respected conservative daily, glumly announced that it had only enough paper for the weekend; then it would have to suspend...