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Nevertheless, to make sure he had never been on the Nazi side, he was quizzed for seven days in the Army screening center in Bad Orb. Then the A.M.G. rounded up ten editorial assistants for him, lent them newsprint, and put them to work in the big red brick building that once housed the famed Ullstein publishing house...
...Paper. The paper began as a thrice-weekly, became a daily in two months. Circulation rose to 450,000 copies a day, then was cut back to 350,000 because of the newsprint shortage. Today, printing six to eight grey, pictureless pages a day, the paper has 40 editorial staffers, 40 linotypes and four presses...
Interdependence. For one thing, U.S. oil was used to drive machinery in western Canada's newsprint mills. If the mills slowed down or stopped for lack of fuel, many a newspaper on the U.S. West Coast would soon be out of paper. Canada supplies 80% of U.S. newsprint consumption, and much of it could be sold elsewhere at higher prices in the present world famine. The same is true of minerals (especially copper, zinc and lead...
TIME'S PRESS EDITOR GIVES EXCELLENT ACCOUNT NEWSPRINT-HUNGRY FLEET STREET [TIME, DEC. 15] BUT ERRS GRIEVOUSLY IN SWEEPING STATEMENT "U.S. NEWS RARELY MAKES THE FRONT PAGES UNLESS IT IS SUCH MUSICOMEDY STUFF AS THE 'HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS."' IN 78 ISSUES OF THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED BETWEEN SEPT. 11 AND DEC. 10 AMERICAN NEWS APPEARED ON FRONT PAGE ON 71 DIFFERENT DAYS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE SEVERAL AMERICAN STORIES ON FRONT PAGE. . . . HARDLY ANY OF THEM DEALT WITH THE HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS...
Whispers from Below. A good many proprietors of London's predominantly Tory press have felt that the Socialist government is gunning for them, taking away newsprint so they'll have less space to criticize Labor. The proprietors have also heard the whisper of mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman...