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Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
...Seattle, Isaacson Iron Works had a machinists' strike on its hands, because "the unions anticipated more [war] business than we did." Soundview Pulp Co., in nearby Everett, its exports soaring, had the fourth best month in its history in April...
...curiosities of raw material exports were scrap tin and wood pulp, which the U. S. must buy abroad. Despite growing national concern over the lack of a domestic tin stockpile, U. S. exports of tin plate scrap were $19,872,000 for the quarter, up 361% from 1939. The quarter's exports of wood pulp, just before the outbreak of the Scandinavian war, jumped from 17,731 tons last year to 74,161 tons...
...pages, were months ago reduced to twelve, the great twopenny London Times to 16. By last week all dailies including the Times were down to an average of ten pages, twelve on Sundays. With only a 300,000-ton reserve of newsprint, a ten-week supply of pulp for Britain's mills, a publishers' agreement to reduce all papers to six pages was momentarily expected. Newsdealers are no longer permitted to return unsold papers and it is often practically impossible to buy a morning paper unless one has a standing order with a newsdealer...
...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...