Word: newsprint
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...commercial dailies also felt the threat of a swat. For four months, newsprint imports had been banned. Now the Government was letting paper in if buyers surrendered part of it for resale to the noisy pro-Perón press. Staunchly independent La Prensa, desperate for newsprint, was asked to give up half its incoming shipments; the more tractable El Mundo chain (one newspaper, six magazines, a radio station) could keep 70%. The warning to the press was clear: angle your stories right to stay in business...
...that the United States story is not getting out. We sit over here and argue about whether we'll spend eight or 18 millions to present our side of the case. In France, the Communists got all the best newspapers after liberation, and the biggest allotment of newsprint. We ship in wheat and not a word of it gets in the paper. Russia sends in a boatload of wheat, makes the French transport it and pay for it in American dollars, and you'd think it was the millennium from the way the Communist newspapers play...
...Nanking, the Government announced "thrift and austerity" decrees to save dwindling foreign exchange and increase efficiency. The Government payroll (on which, a Cabinet spokesman estimated, some 18 million Chinese, including Army and students, now depend) would be reduced immediately. Food, cloth, gasoline and newsprint would come under new rationing and conservation restrictions. The number of official banquets would be reduced, and official meetings would start on time...
...competitors in the world market in 1939. When the war cut off traditional European customers, they found that they could do business with each other. Latin America had vegetable oils, coffee, bananas, cotton, sugar and many another tropical product that Canada wanted. The Dominion, in return, needed markets for newsprint, machinery', wheat and whiskey...
...LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...