Word: pulpwood
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...functions. To expand, to extend, to go on making money, the publishers felt that they must get certain matters adjusted. They protested loudly, as usual, that postal rates were extortionate. They hinted that advertising rates were too low. They declared that the public must be aroused to the pulpwood shortage with which they, the publishers, might soon be faced...
...House of Representatives last week passed a resolution providing for a committee investigation of "the means and methods of control of production and exportation of crude rubber, coffee, silk, nitrates, potash, quinine, iodine, tin, sisal (a fibre used for cordage), quicksilver, pulpwood . . . their effects upon the commerce of the United States, both as to supply and to price...
...other products listed in the resolution are or may be controlled in similar ways by various foreign countries. Brazil is protecting her coffee growers. Canada is talking of an export embargo on pulpwood to conserve her timber, etc. But at the present time rubber is the outstanding case...
This is the economic background of the vested words recently uttered by various and sundry Americans on the paper situation. Canada, on the plea of forest conservation, is considering an embargo on pulpwood exports. This threatens the U. S. paper industry, the occurrence of high prices and severe hardships on U. S. publishers of almost all types. The National Publishers Association has prodded Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Mr. Borah remains in a quandary as to the proper steps to take...