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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loud was the outcry of U. S. newspaper publishers when Canadian papermakers, prodded by provincial government officials, announced they would have to charge $5 more than $55.20 per ton (the present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting Federal investigation. They also made the conciliatory gesture of inviting a committee of the Newsprint Institute of Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further...
...month truce was forced upon them by the biggest company among them, U. S.-owned International Paper Co. Not a member of the institute, free to act independently, International offered newsprint at $55.20 per ton until July 1, promising 30 days' notice of any price change after July...
Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock...
...world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw the treaty cruisers into disfavor and minimize their chances of employment ten years hence...
...bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55 per ton. On the other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return." This indication...