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Word: shortleaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Paradoxically, though Lufkin's newsprint sells for only $40 to $50 a ton,* it is harder to make from Southern pine than are more expensive papers. (Texas shortleaf pine yields a newsprint thicker, less pliable than standard newsprint.) Southland's 50,000 tons a year will be no more than a drop in the 3,000,000-ton bucket of the U. S. newsprint market. But if Southland's product becomes generally acceptable, the South's newsprint industry may be due for at least a boomlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Southland Paper | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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