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...fringes of the conference, special pleaders abounded. There were Zionists, Laborites, two representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and six Poles (three Warsaw, three London) operating as news papermen. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, distinguished sister of the imprisoned Indian nationalist leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, challenged the right of the titled Indian delegates to speak for the Indian people...
This week many an afternoon newspaper prepared to cut to one or two editions. The purpose was not to save paper, but to save the rubber on delivery trucks. To papermen it was just one more unhappy step away from a paper shortage. Wailed a Glens Falls, N.Y. paperman: "There is only one thing we lack-sufficient orders...
...substance lying like mortar among the cellulose-walled cells of all plants. It makes wood woody, constitutes about 25% (by weight) of the coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned...
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...
...papermen were more immediately worried about pulp. Expanding their facilities, improving their technology, reaching into Southern pine forests for raw material, U. S. pulp manufacturers now have enough potential capacity to supply basic U. S. needs. But with Canada's mills already working at capacity to supply Empire needs, Britain may look to U. S. pulp mills to supply her Scandinavian and Finnish deficit. Speculators were quick to appreciate the fact. Jumping into the market the morning after Scandinavia's invasion, they bought shares in integrated paper companies, made market leaders out of such stocks as International, Union...