Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint for U. S. dailies...
Trees to make this paper grow for the most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been...
...Ontario and Quebec do not get fair returns for their forest wealth, we will have to do something. We can do almost anything, but we do not want to make the price of paper, for when a government intervenes to fix the price of merchandise it does not succeed generally. Our Canadian manufacturers believe that $60 would be a fair return...
Excited at the news, Vice President J. L. Fearing of International Paper Co. (I. P. & P. subsidiary) telephoned to Montreal to learn the reason for his chief's sudden reversal. By this time President Graustein had recovered somewhat from his interview with the two premiers...
Worried U. S. newspaper publishers, their budgets upset, exchanged telegrams, announced an emergency convention in New York's Hotel Pennsylvania for Dec. 9 to talk paper prices...