Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just about the world's crudest propaganda sheet is the monthly Bezbozhnik ("The Godless"), of Russia's League of the Militant Godless. While a pretense of religious freedom is maintained in Russia, the League carries on anti-religious activity probably abetted by the Secret Police and Bezbozhnik serves as a pep sheet for Atheists. Last week it printed an account of what has been happening to priests and their flocks in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland...
News From Rome, the famed one-sheet poster newspaper of the Fascist Party, is pasted up weekly on walls all over Italy, claims 30,000,000 readers. In copies reaching the U. S. last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that the Duce took steps in time to provide enough grain-for all. . . . Don't get the idea of hoarding anything at home, especially food. . . . Leave in the banks any money you have deposited. . . . Leave news from foreign sources alone. . . . Politics is not your business. Let Him-at Rome...
...Scrap. Fourth quarter steel earnings will not be as lush as production because sheets will be going at June's cut prices until Jan. 1. And there is a menacing squeeze in raw materials. September pig iron production rose only 12% because blast furnaces for making pig iron are in worse shape than furnaces for smelting steel ingots. Quick to profit from the scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills...
...Other steel bottlenecks: Continuous mills roll semi-finished steel into sheet and strip much faster than open hearth furnaces now operating feed them with ingots. Nor can the blast furnaces now in operation keep up with the open hearths. Steel making at Youngstown, Ohio dropped two points (to 80%) this week because of a shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories...
Among the first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...