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Those years produced a great many mergers and acquisitions which papermen like to describe as "vertical integration." Where the industry was once cluttered with small companies making bags and boxes from paper that they bought from big mills, it is now dominated by a handful of large companies whose operations begin in the forests and end with the final box. The greater capital of the big companies has allowed them to put more money into the development of new uses for paper...
Tiamat marries the editor's daughter, who, like all of the author's women, is impossibly beautiful, strong, passionate, lov ing and wise (for instance, she knows that as miners get silicosis. matadors are gored and fishermen drowned, so news papermen get drunk). Despite her virtues Tiamat takes a mistress. Since this is a fable of corruption, his enraged father-in-law offers him two choices : quit the paper, or incur certain moral leprosy by becoming a columnist. The scapegrace journalist chooses to lose his soul, and the author to misplace both humor and control of his figures...
...Nieman Foundation has announced the appointment of 11 American news papermen, including Pulitzer Prize winner J. Anthony Lewis '48, as Nieman Fellows...
MacLeish added that this relationship has been created "not through a professional school of journalism ... but through the presence of working news papermen in the University community...
...Canada may also help fuel the U.S. inflation she fears. Her biggest exports are lumber, wood products and paper-and the U.S. buys most of them. If Canadian lumber and papermen boost prices in U.S. dollars in order to maintain their profit margins, then U.S. manufacturers may have to boost prices in their turn, and there will be more outside inflation pressuring Canada...