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The article reports that the paperboard industry is suffering from the effects of the overestimation of paperboard requirements by U.S. war planners. Estimates for 1942 that were made in 1941 showed that paperboard capacity would not be able to meet minimum requirements for civilians. As it turned out, the programs for minimizing civilian use and the collection drive for wastepaper were too successful. The result is a decline in the prices of paperboards.

This article focuses on the scarcity of newsprints in the U.S. A handful of metropolitan papers, about 200 are getting 85 per cent of available newsprint, while 17,000 papers struggle for the remaining 15 per cent. The U.S., with 6 per cent of the world's population, gets about 60 per cent of the world's production of newsprint; this hampers the spread of democratic ideas abroad and causes loss of jobs to foreign newspapermen and newspaperwomen. During the war all papers subsisted more or less comfortably on quota allotments. Troubles started when the American Newspaper Publishers' Association quietly pushed for lifting of controls, January 1, 1946.

The article focuses on U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS), a Department of Commerce division and main research laboratory for physical science and engineering, which was established by Congress in 1901. It mentions that military-related research works of NBS led to the development of panoramic x-ray machine and ballistocardiographic jerkmeter. It adds that NBS in collaboration with the paper industry developed a method for making paper using glass fiber without any adhesives and binders.

The article discusses the challenges faced by the government of Boston in Massachusetts as it aims to initiate modernization processes in the city in 1954. The biggest industrial category in Boston is manufacturing which allows the city to compete well against other cities in the U.S. in 1951. According to the author, Boston ranks fourth in allied and paper industries as well as in publishing and printing business categories.

The article offers information on the principles of money market in the U.S. It explores the effects of monetary policy of the Federal Reserve System, demand for credit, capital investments, loans, commercial paper market, as well as the role of banks and insurance companies. Moreover, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the acquisition of company stocks and financial bonds.

The article discusses the history of alphabetic writing and related discoveries in technological innovations such as paper, books, and parchment. The origins of the words Bible, babel, and the Greek word biblia from the Phoenician city of Byblos is explored. The use of alphabet characters to write Phoenician inscriptions on royal tombs uncovered at Byblos is considered. It also explores the fact that early Semitic languages lacked vowels as part of their alphabets, a situation that the author posits is because their languages were predominantly consonantal. Other written languages considered include those using pictographs, ideographs, and hieroglyphs.

The national planning association, which is engaged in a comprehensive study of "the causes of industrial peace," has reported on one of the cases it has examined, that of the West Coast paper industry where there has been no stoppage of production for fourteen years. The unions and the management have settled their own disputes without outside intervention. The unions have been secure in their status, not fearful of attacks by management. It may be good politics, just before an election, to bring an anti-trust suit against the big-four packers at a time when meat prices are high, but they may be sure that the action is not the result of a sudden inspiration. Such cases are carefully prepared by months or years of research on the part of government lawyers and economists.

The article reports on the business performance and profitability rankings of companies in the U.S. forest and paper products industry in 1965. Georgia-Pacific Corp., Rayonier Inc., and Boise Cascade Corp. all gained profits. U.S. Plywood Corp. is expected to earn increased return on equity, while the success of Scott is attributed to its marketing strategy. Several companies, including St. Regis, International Paper, Crown Zellerbach, and Kimberly Clark, tried to offset the dilution through modernization.

Good many of the admirers of an irredeemable paper currency have begun to admit, within the last few days, that whatever other virtues this currency may possess, it does not possess the power of preventing panics. They are, however, a little hasty, in making this confession, because their experiment has not been tried under the necessary conditions. If they will recall their talk of a few years ago, they will find that the reason they gave for believing that inconvertible paper would protect the nation against crises was that, unlike gold, it could be increased indefinitely in quantity whenever the occasion called for it.

The article focuses on paper fiber as an alternative for textile companies in view of the shortage of imported jute carpet backing material. Reason for the interest in paper yarn is given along with future possibilities for it. Its qualities are described which warrant it as a natural next step to cotton. The experiments being undertaken by some textile companies are presented including Cone Mills, Inc., Deering-Milliken, Inc., and Iselin-Jefferson Co., Inc. Opposition is noted in terms of the lack of highly directional twisting paper.

The article discusses how U.S. stock exchanges and brokerage houses are dealing with backlogs and searching for measures to prevent another crisis in 1968. The author reports that for a period of two weeks, the important stock market indexes have been slipping with the Dow-Jones industrial average dropping to 901.41 from a high of 935.6 on May 3, 1968. The author says that the most pressing problem is the large amounts of paper that brokerage houses have accumulated during the crisis. INSET: 'Fails' get stuck in broker pipelines.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 24, 1971. U.S. foreign economic and political relations with China are discussed in detail. The forced closings of domestic paper mills due to Federal anti-pollution standards are reviewed. The State Department's foreign training programs for police methods and anti-communism is described.

The article presents several mathematical games related to ellipse. This game is tracing a perfect ellipse. One example is the two thumbtacks that stick in a sheet of paper, putting a loop of string around them and keep the string taut with the point of a pencil. Moving a pencil around the tacks will trace a perfect ellipse. Another method can be demonstrated with a circular cake pan and a cardboard disk having half the diameter of the pan.

The article presents information on the War Production Board's (WPB) rules and regulations for the price control and transport of different products. Paper consumption of magazine publishers is limited in each quarter of 1943 to 90 percent of 1942's average quarterly use. Use of copper by the printing and publishing industry has been reduced by 60 percent. Rules regarding butter and margarine, dairy products, and electric motors are also presented.

Tabloid journalism in New York is only seven years old. The history of its growth makes a mushroom seem like a century plant. Tabloids have been appearing all over the country since Joseph Medill Patterson started it. Less important newspaper publishers hopped on the bandwagon, and Bernarr Macfadden, who whelps magazines in litters, decided to get in line. It is said that the inception of the News was due to an earnest desire on the part of Patterson to lose money. The year 1918 saw the Chicago Tribune pile up more profits than ever before in its highly prosperous career.

The article presents information on several books. The book "Capt. Francis Champernowne, the Du'ch Conquest of Acadie, and Other Historical Papers," by Charles Wesley Tuttle, is the tribute of affectionate friends to one of the most diligent and careful of our antiquarian writers. Charles W. Tuttle, of noted New Hampshire origin, was a student all his life, and fortunately his tastes led him to give much time and care to investigating the more obscure portions of our local history. Another book discussed is "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society," vol. 4. The Massachusetts Historical Society, in 1877 and 1878, published two volumes of "Belknap Papers" from manuscripts found in its cabinets, consisting mainly of letters between Jeremy Belknap, the author of a history of New Hampshire and Ebenezer Hazard of Philadelphia, Post-master-General under the old Confederation, and editor of the historical collections known by his name. Though these letters grew out of the historical and literary projects of the writers, they throw much light upon a great variety of subjects between 1779 and 1798.

The article presents information on a war that resulted due to the massive leak of secret documents in U.S. history. Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon analyst, was reportedly so concerned about his involvement in the Vietnam tragedy that he had conveyed about 40 volumes of an extraordinary Pentagon history of the war to a newspaper. This included 4,000 pages of top secret documents. The first U.S. ground troops were deployed in South Vietnam during the spring of 1965.

This section offers news briefs related to the different types of markets in the U.S. as of September 1937. The public utilities firms are planning to borrow several hundred millions from banks to finance their operations. The move of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to cut the rediscount rate to 1 per cent has improved the trends in the commercial paper and discount rates. Most of the cotton planters in the Southern region of the U.S. were disappointed with the cotton loan program announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The article discusses the success of International Paper Co. (IP) as of 1951 and the contributions by president John H. Hinman in it. The company was created by William A. Russell together with 20 rival millowners in 1898. IP suffered a decline in earnings in 1912. President Philip T. Dodge sought to revive the company in 1913 by introducing new products. Under Hinman's management, the company has been able to eliminate all of its debt and increase its sales as well as its shares.

The article reports on the launching of the newspaper "National Observer" in the U.S. in February 1962. The magazine was published by Dow Jones & Co. Inc., the parent company of the "Wall Street Journal." Dow-Jones executive editor Robert Bottorff mentioned that they started the newspaper as their reaction to Sunday papers.

The article discusses the changes introduced by Sidney L. Willson, president of American Writing Paper Company, to the paper manufacturer. It mentions Willson's role in improving the company's performance in the stock market and provides a brief account of his career. The replacement of executives, the closure of idle paper mills to achieve savings and the use of slack times as part of the company's reorganization are cited.

The article offers information about W.R. Grace and Co., sugar refiners and industrialists that experimented with bagasse and fibrous waste to make paper in Peru.

The article offers business updates concerning personal paper products manufacturer Scott Paper Co. It describes the financial difficulties experienced by the firm prior to 1969, with emphasis on the declining prices of its stocks after the failed marketing tactic launched by then marketing vice-president Harrison F. Dunning. The benefits of the acquisition of three small companies and reorganization to enhance the management system of the company are described. The competition between Scott and Procter & Gamble is also reported.

The article focuses on the decision of John J. Hinman, chairman of International Paper Co., to invest in domestic newsprint production in the U.S. in 1955. Hinman has bought Brown Corporation's Canadian pulp mill and 2,500 acres of Quebec woodland for 37.6 million dollars. In 1954, American consumers read about 6,162,761 tons of newsprint, but American producers rolled only 18%, the reason behind Hinman's sudden interest in newsprint production.

The article previews several products including the Kodagraph paper products from Eastman Kodak Co., a stereoscopic microscope from American Optical Co., and the Jordaphone electronic device from Jordanoff Corp.

The article describes various chemists and their accomplishments. Arthur Dehon Little has achieved various accomplishments including the use of wood wastes to convert them into paper, the creation of a process of producing antiknock gasoline, and the development of the Schultz process to create chrome-tanning leather. David Wesson's list of achievements include the invention of palatable Wessona from cottonseed and the discovery of converting waste pulp into a substitute for meat. Charles L. Reese discovered nitric acid while Francis C. Frary invented phosgene.

The Committee on Indian Currency and Exchange in Great Britain has recently issued a report which has in substance been adopted by the India Office. The recommendations of the Committee aim to restore stability to the rupee and to maintain the convertibility of the Indian paper currency. This article presents a summary of the chief recommendations of the Committee, taken from the London newspaper "Morning Post" of February 3, 1920. Some of the recommendations are as follows. The present rupee unchanged in weight and fineness should remain unlimited legal tender. The import and export of gold to and from India should be free from Government control as soon as the change in the statutory ratio has been effected.

This article discusses several sociopolitical issues. The eagerness with which the political candidates' letters of acceptance have been looked for in the present canvass is a striking proof of the small amount of confidence reposed in the regular platform. Also in the article, attention is drawn to some time ago when the remarkable change which came over the friends of irredeemable paper-money since silver began to fall rapidly in value. Now, there has been, as everybody must have noticed during the last year, a considerable falling-off in this admiration for paper-money.

The article reports on the use of paper chromatography for separating the constituents of mixtures. Paper chromatography has been use for separation of organic substances because of its effectiveness and its economy of material and labor. There is a growing number of list of substances that can be analyzed by paper chromatography.

Focuses on underground press medium prevalent in the U.S. during the 1970's. Views of liberal writers towards underground press publications; Information about papers published by alternative press.

The article presents brief discussions on various political developments in the U.S. and other countries. National Greenback party of New York have adopted a platform of principles declaring that all debts, public and private, should be paid with paper, and that the paper should not be paid with anything. The Ohio Greenback partymen proposed to limit the paper issues of the U.S. government to the demands of business or the employment of labor, and suggested that gold, silver, and greenbacks be made the equals of each other in value. The New York branch proposes no limits whatever, and have no toleration for metallic money of any kind. Absolute money is the only medium of exchange they admit into their bedlam.

The article provides information about Origami, the Japanese art of folding objects made of paper. It is traditionally an art of folding realistic animals without cutting or decorating from a single of sheet of paper. Many mathematicians became fascinated with paper-folding, in view of its geometrical aspect. An interesting mathematical question is raised by the very act of folding a paper.

The article focuses on the procedures in making hexaflexagons and tetraflexagon out of paper. Diverting six-sided paper structures that can be flexed to bring different surfaces into view is known as hexaflexagons. Tetraflexagon is a three-faced structure. It suggested that papers must be folded according to the number of sides it requires. Tetraflexagon can also be made with four or more faces. It has been stated that all folds of paper are made to conform with the way the lines were originally creased.

The article focuses on issues related to international relations. Stabilization of the franc has brought with it in France an unemployment crisis of exceptional severity. France, cruelly impoverished by the war and the heavy cost of rebuilding the devastated regions placed upon her as a result of Germany's long default, has nevertheless enjoyed for a certain period an illusory ease which, sooner or later, was bound to disappear. This artificial prosperity she owed to inflation. Even during the war, France was forced to issue an enormous amount of paper money to meet expenses which were essentially destructive and sterile from an economic point of view.

The British government's decision to cut newsprint imports was indorsed by the House of Commons in spite of a barrage of criticism from members of all parties. The cut means that British newspapers must either reduce circulation or return to the font-page format of war time. As a result, it is charged, publishers will lose revenue, workers will lose jobs and the task of keeping the public properly informed about current events will be rendered immeasurably more difficult. Moreover, it is argued, the maximum saving to be achieved is $12,000,000, a minute fraction of the current trade deficit. One sympathizes with British publishers and journalists but realize that the Labor government has a case too. Its thankless task is to cut down imports at a time when they are so far below the total Britain could absorb that any cut must be painful.