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...eight-page tabloid, printed on standard newsprint, the Sunday News carried stories with a campus angle, church notices, two pages of sports, a page of pictures, no national or foreign news. Proprietors Haig & Wright put up $1,000 of their own money to get it started. Both juniors, they will give the Sunday News away free for the rest of the academic year (nine issues in all), hope next year to clear $75 a week...
Imports. No. 1 U. S. import from Scandinavia is newsprint and wood pulp. Of 3,550,000 tons of newsprint used in the U. S. last year, 300,000 came from Scandinavia and Finland. Of 9,003,000 tons of pulp used by U. S. manufacturers of kraft, newsprint, book papers, 1,305,000 came from Sweden, Norway and Finland...
This week, the U. S. contract price of newsprint still hung at $50 a ton as it had for two years, and big International Paper soothed apprehensive buyers by announcing its price would be maintained at $50 at least to Oct. 1. But papermen could see complexities ahead, for the Northern European group was an important supplier of British newsprint, and Britain will have to call on No. 1 Newsprint Maker Canada for more of her supply. Last year, Canada supplied 2,206,000 tons of the newsprint used in the U. S. If Canada's paper mills...
Since then the "chemurgic movement" has gathered headway with soybeans for plastics and automobile enamels; casein (from milk) for fabrics and plastics; tung oil for paints; Southern slash pine and yellow pine for newsprint; furfural (for plastics, oil refining, wood resin processing) from oat hulls; anti-freeze fluids and fuel alcohol from cull potatoes; cotton for binding material in roads, pecan shells for charcoal. So far, however, chemurgy has not much helped the mass of U. S. farmers, as Congress' election-year fondling of bedeviled agriculture well shows...
...picture editor of the Associated Press News Photo Service, onetime news editor of Editor & Publisher. From American Type Founders (who are anxious to promote offset) he got a promise of easy terms on presses and equipment. With International Paper Co. he made a deal for a new, hard-surface newsprint. Among the citizens of Hartford he managed to raise $75,000 capital. His stockholders include Francis Goodwin Smith Jr., a member of his staff, whose father runs the Hartford-Empire (glass) Co.; Insurance Agent Thomas Russell; Lawyer Thomas Hewes (onetime special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull...