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...neighbors are each other's best customers, but it is a chronic Canadian complaint that Canada gets the short end of the bargain. By the trainload and shipload, Canadian newsprint, nickel, aluminum feed the U.S. economy. The Consolidated Denison mine in Blind River, Ont. contains twice as much uranium as all the known U.S. reserves, and its entire output through 1961 is earmarked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In turn, the U.S. ships industrial machinery, automobiles and consumer goods to the north, and Canada's trade deficit with the U.S. last year...
What was mainly involved was the return of normal peacetime competition to the industry after 18 years of newsprint rationing. Until last December, when the government finally allowed newspapers to run as many pages as they wished, the biggest and strongest dailies could not give advertisers all the space they needed, thus, in effect, subsidizing smaller and weaker papers that had space to spare. With the end of newsprint restrictions. British admen, like their Madison Avenue cousins, began to concentrate their ads in dailies that give them either mass circulation, such as the Daily Express (circ...
Less successful papers have thus been quick to feel the pinch of production costs, long fattened by featherbedding mechanical unions and skyrocketing newsprint prices, which at $146 a ton (v. $134 in New York) are six times the prewar level. Aggrieved by the Laborite Herald's woes, one Labor M.P. even charged in the Commons' debate that the "giants have been deliberately inflating costs because they know that [they] will squeeze out their weaker brethren," while a Tory went so far as to propose beefing up ailing papers with government-paid newsprint subsidies...
...clear that in the eyes of the Italian people his trial would be a test of the government's willingness to administer equal justice under the law. As witness after witness-some 200-contributed his piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family scandal...
...crash program costing four or five times what the commission recommended. The commission itself listed $211 million worth of agricultural research projects now under way that could be pushed through immediately. Among them: i) development of powdered whole milk that tastes like fresh 2) a method to make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host of new drugs, such...