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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...
Last week in Chicago N.F.C.C. held its sixth annual conference. High lights: Cigaret paper is more widely used in the U. S. than in any other nation, but most U. S. cigaret paper has always been made in France from rags. At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines. Result: a market for 10,000 tons a year of U. S. flax...
...French cigaret-paper industry big enough to take over the business Austria had had before World War I. By the time Harry Straus was dubbed Chevalier, some 26 French paper plants were furnishing 75% of the paper used in U. S.-made cigarets. Seeing another world war ahead. Paperman Straus was then already deep in plans to move a big piece of France's new industry west again...
Died. William Fairfield Whiting, 72 Holyoke, Mass. paper manufacturer, great friend and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of Commerce to Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Holyoke. At the 1920 Republican Convention Paperman Whiting voted Coolidge for President on all ten ballots, was instrumental in getting his friend the Vice-Presidential nomination...
Thereafter the business of the 20th Republican National Convention terminated briefly. Charles Irwin, an old news paperman, seasoned in U. S. politics since the forgotten days when young Boies Penrose was a Libertarian, watched the dele gates file out of the Stadium. "The Dutch," commented he, "have taken Holland...