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Focuses on the use of paper for various purposes in the U.S., such as in fashion, as of May 2005. Use of chemically treated paper by astronauts; Event responsible for the popularity of paper as a design material; Benefits from using disposable items.

Provides facts about the paper money in the U.S. Number of individual notes printed by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing division in Washington in 1957; Cost implication of the superstition about printing $2 bills; Purpose of the intricacy and variety of patterns used in paper currency; Changes made to the feature of the paper due to the Pacific war.

Focuses on the impact of the Texas ice storm on January 17, 1944 on the paper industry in the U.S. Role of the ice storm in the introduction of woods mechanization equipment in southern states; Advantages of the decision of the Brown Paper Mill Co. Inc. to lease saws to a contractor on a lease-sale arrangement; Main sources of paper.

Focuses on the portrayal by actor Alan Alda of the role of journalist George Plimpton in the movie version of the book "Paper Lion" in the U.S. Efforts of Alda in preparing for his role as an amateur athlete; Information on several scenes featured at the film; Views of Alda on the outcome of the film.

The article encourages readers to collect wastepaper such as old newspapers and magazines to become paper salvage, that is essential in saving the paper industry in the U.S. The shortage of manpower in the country resulted to low paper-pulpwood production, which is below the basic war and home-front needs. Wastepaper could be sold to dealers and donated to a local salvage committee.

Emphasizes the necessity for the public to participate in the scrap paper collection program of the U.S. government. Factors that will contribute to the increase in scrap paper; Improvements in the collection of scrap materials; Ways for the public to add to their scrap-paper contribution.

Reflects on the Pumpkin Papers trial of 1948, wherein Alger Hiss, once an official in the U.S. State Department, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, and "Times" magazine editor, Whittaker Chambers testified against him. Comparison between Hiss and Chambers' backgrounds; Highlights of Chambers' testimony; Information on the libel suit brought by Hiss against Chambers.

The article talks about the popularity of Origami in the U.S. Origami in Japanese is the art of folding paper. According to Lillian Oppenheimer, a pioneer enthusiast and founder of an Origami Center in New York City, the Japanese and Chinese have worked or played at it as a craft or game for nearly 2000 years--about as long as paper itself has been known.

The article discusses the opening of the U.S. Library of Congress to the American people featuring the collection of Robert Todd Lincoln on his father's papers. This collection probably contains as many as 15,000 Lincoln documents. The bulk of these deal with the official business of his Presidency, and some may cast light into hitherto shadowed corners of his life.

Discusses the excellent reporting by women journalists in the U.S. Prejudice against newspaperwomen; Remarks of male newspaper editors on newspaperwomen; Background of the work of Nellie Bly and Ishbel Ross.

Focuses on the career of investment counsel Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas in the U.S. Consultation fee he charged to his clients; Information on his market forecasting technique; Family and educational background.

The article discusses the conservation of paper as a way of helping in the development of a battleship by the U.S. Navy. The Navy uses sixteen tons of paper for the plans, designs and blueprints for a ship. The construction of a Flying Fortress takes 20,000 drawings. The restriction of paper use is a way of contributing to the war effort.

Focuses on the use of proceeds of wastepaper group collection to provide for entertainment needed by wounded U.S. servicemen and other military groups at war. Leisure supplies given by civilians through the Camp and Hospital Council of the American Red Cross; Pounds of paper that were collected by employees of Curtis Publishing Co. Efforts of the employees to gather paper to be converted into the war effort.

Argues that the U.S. Gold Prohibition law should be repealed. Total worth of gold owned by the U.S. government as of July 13, 1940; Relationship between gold and all forms of government debt including paper money; Contention of the author that the only purpose served by the law is political; Impact if the law is repealed.

Focuses on dominion over money in the U.S. Information on a phrase written in a U.S. dollar bill; Difference between bank checks and paper money; Views of U.S. Senator Carter Glass on repudiation in the U.S. Congress.

The article reflects on wax coated, edible paper used in the printing of the revised edition of the U.S. Air Force's Manual 640-1 entitled "Survival." The author related the comments made by the Informational Bulletin of the Air Training Command, that the wax coating will enable a survivor to cause fire and the paper itself will assist in overcoming the pangs of hunger.

The article discusses the efforts of the U.S. Treasury to convince people to utilize two-dollar bills in 1950. The agency launched a public-relations campaign to popularize the two-dollar bills several decades ago. The armed forces used a considerable number of two-dollar bills. According to the Treasury, the only thing wrong with two-dollar bills is that people do not like to accept them. Despite all efforts, the number of two-dollar notes in circulation has decreased 7,000,000 in the past three years.

The article focuses on the Postwar Plan and Program of the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is a possibility that NRPB will explore the suggestions for extensions of social security. U.S. is claimed to outrun the New Deal. U.S. people recognize that there will be challenges of transition and adjustment.

The article presents news briefs in the U.S. as of March 1942. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, motion picture writers claimed problems with the unemployment benefits in California. Telephone owners in Washington had increased in 1942 as compared to 1930. There was an existence of virgin buffalo grass range in Western Kansas.

The article covers various issues in the U.S. as of March 1942. The rules of the United States Golf Association now allows a competitor to discontinue play or to delay his start given certain conditions. The fully-paid membership in the Chamber of Commerce went to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The Los Angeles, California branch of General Motors had to repossess a truck and trailer housing lions of a busted animal act.

The article covers various issues in the U.S. as of February 28, 1942. The United Mine Workers in New York has signed up 5,000 Michigan dairy farmers and will enroll 22,000 more before April 1. The Army is training glider pilots at Twenty-nine Palms in the Mojave Desert in California. Senator Henry Taylor Wickham presided when the Virginia Senate convened.

The article presents news briefs as of February 1942. The U.S. Navy is building ten submarines in Lake Michigan port. The total cinema attendance in Great Britain in 1941 was 15,000,000 greater than the previous high. The Manhasset Bay estate of the late Walter P. Chrysler in New York opens a training school for merchant-marine officers.

This article offers news briefs on several issues and events in the U.S. society, as of January 24, 1942. John Temple Graves of the Age-Herald conducted a symposium to learn why the South was more warlike and more interventionist than any other section. Twenty-two deaf mutes have made good as mechanics in the Interstate Aircraft plant. Theresa Garranome found a ten-carat diamond in a gutter in Union Square in April 1940.

Presents news briefs concerning several issues in the U.S. as of December 1941. Qualifications of an ideal business agent of a labor union, as specified by Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers International Vice President Harry J. Hagen; High-school trends listed in "Parent's Magazine"; Deer population in New York State.

Presents updates on various issues such as business featured in several magazines in the U.S. as of November 1941. Increase in the gross income of the estate of James Stillman, president of the National City Bank in New York; Information on the case of Archie Herron, who was arrested for drunkenness in 1908 in Trenton, New Jersey; Number of nonresident hunting licenses issued by South Dakota in 1941.

Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

Offers updates on various issues such as stock, inspiration for a movie title and the antics of the U.S. as of October 11, 1941. Percentage of holders that own common stocks of fifty leading U.S. Corporations; Use of an ornate clock without hands in front of the Utter-McKinley undertaking parlors on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California as an inspiration for the movie title "No Hands on the Clock"; Decision of Benjamin Claro Velasco, a leader of the Radical Party in Chile, to tell Frances R. Grant, a U.S. woman interviewer, that Latin America is displeased on the good-neighbor antics of the U.S.

Covers various issues in the U.S. and Europe. Suspension of the publication of "Golf Magazine"; Prohibition of the practice of medicine of European physicians in Washington, recommended by the District of Columbia commissioners to the U.S. Congress; Replacement of Batmen, the British-army term for enlisted men acting as officers' servants, by women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service in the British isles.

Presents updates related to current events in the U.S. as of September 1941. Budget allotted by Mathieson Alkali for the construction of a magnesium plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana; Guilty plea posed by Frank Mancini, a dishwasher, for dressing up as a military policeman; Resolutions passed by the fifty-fourth session of the California legislature.

Covers issues in the U.S. as of September 6, 1941. New owners of the Midwick Country Club in Los Angeles, California; Reasons behind the dismissal of Helen Miller, an industrial economist, from the Department of Labor; Remodeling of the house of the late drug king Louis K. Liggett to house classes and offices for the Boston College in Massachusetts.

Covers various issues in the U.S. Findings of an investigation into work stoppages by women workers at Acklin Stamping Co. in Toledo, Ohio; Number of tenants at modern homes in the Lake Dick FSA colony in Little Rock, Arkansas; Closure of a gambling house following a strike staged by its employees in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Presents news briefs in the U.S. and other parts of the world as of July 1941. Refusal of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for the lease of the Fort Worth & Denver City; Background of Sir Charles Stuart Burnett, Air Chief Marshal for Australia; Number of outdoor advertising which has been removed since the enactment of a law regulating billboards by Virginia in 1938.

Covers various issues in the U.S. as of July 19, 1941. Refusal of Milo Pinkerton, father of Phyllis, valedictorian of the 1941 class of Central High in Madison, Wisconsin, to let his daughter deliver her graduating address because he thought it was too vague; Decline in the incidence of venereal diseases in Pensacola, Florida since some houses were quarantined in March; Victory of Class A golfer Charles B. Hays in the U.S. senior championship tournament in Rye, New York.

Covers issues in the U.S. as of July 1941. Sale of the estate of the late investment banker Otto H. Kahn in Long Island, New York to the Briarcliff Junior College; Sentence imposed on Frank H. Wise, local head of the Volunteers of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for income-tax frauds; Enactment of a legislation collecting 3 percent of the gross royalty receipts of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in South Carolina.

Covers various issues in the U.S. as of June 28, 1941. Changes in the motorcar license plates in Georgia to be issued in 1942; Reason why Standard Oil of New Jersey is pumping crude from East Texas to Bayonne, New Jersey by a circuitous pipe-line route via Chicago, Illinois; Support extended by R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, to a resolution to bar any Nazi, Fascist or Communist from office in the Michigan Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Presents news briefs in the U.S. as of June 7, 1941. Number of military draft who registered in Georgia that do not have the capacity of reading and writing for the fourth grade; Number of years it took for the town of Athol, Massachusetts to pay a loan from farmer Lyman Jennings; Move of bankers in Saint Louis, Missouri to take over the St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral.

Presents news briefs concerning various social and political issues as of May 1941. Changes in the management of the Boston National League, a horse racing club in Massachusetts; Opposition to a bill that would have made women eligible for jury duty in Toronto, Ontario; Views of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin on the military power of the U.S.

Covers issues in the U.S. and Great Britain as of May 1941. Features of the portable ice rink invented by investment dealer N. Taylor Todd; Name given by the Big Four Railroad to its new steam-drawn streamlined Cincinnati, Ohio-Chicago, Illinois train; Number of automobiles registered in Great Britain in December 1940.

Presents updates on current events in the U.S. and Canada as of January 25, 1941. Information on the picket that happened at the Brass Rail Restaurant in New York City; Facts about Arthur W. Steudel, president of The Sherwin-Williams Co.; Adjusted tax rate in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Reports on the social and political issues and events across the U.S. as of October 1940. Weapons lacked by the Pennsylvania National Guard; Reason behind Queens College president Paul Klapper's refusal to an increase in salary; Value of the tax owed by Pittsburgh Senator Joseph F. Guffey.

Presents news briefs concerning several U.S. states as of August 31, 1940. Features of the world map that covers the lobby of the Bankers Life Co. building in Des Moines, Iowa; Distribution of relief eggs in Fairmont, Minnesota; Resolution adopted by the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Conference in Long Beach, California.

Presents news briefs on various topics in the U.S. as of July 1940. Information on the new executives of Marshall Field & Co.; Information on the appeal of the Progressive Miners Union of Saline Country to the anti-smoke ordinance adopted by Saint Louis in Harrisburg, Illinois; Information on the Bonneville Dam power project in Portland, Oregon.

Offers news briefs on business and political issues in the U.S. as of April 1940. Demolition of the Boulevard Apartments in Washington by the government; Proposal to cut the rate of the Building Trades Employers' Association in New York; Support of the Connecticut Supreme Court for the state Anti-Birth-Control Law.

The article presents an overview of news items published in newspapers around the globe as of April 1940. The U.S. State Department reported a number of aliens who were registered with U.S. consulates abroad to enter into the country. Jim Crow street cars are being installed in Warsaw, Poland. The mining industry in Newfoundland is under recovery.

Presents news briefs on issues related to notable persons in the U.S. as of January 1940. Statement delivered by Professor Albert Baugh of the University of Pennsylvania to the National Council of Teachers of English; Role of actor Erich von Stroheim in a Hollywood film; Reason for the dismissal of a libel suit filed by Clover Fork Coal Co. against the National Labor Relations Board.

Presents news briefs featured in various newspapers in the U.S. and other countries. Offering of meals at a danceteria in New York; Storage of a British luxury train in Baltimore, Maryland; Arrival of a ferry in Rio de Janeiro following a voyage in Virginia.

The article presents information on issues published in various newspapers in the U.S. as of September 30, 2005. The Cotton Textile Institute is convincing A. & P to pack their flour in cotton instead of jute to boost cotton consumption in New Orleans, Louisiana. Trapper Jim McKinley brought his children in his trap-line trip to Klutina Lake after the death of his wife. Politician Woodrow Wilson has changed his political affiliation to the Republican Party for the fourth time.

The article covers various issues in the U.S. It cites the message of the letter received by Senator Josh Lee from Oklahoma. It states the injuries incurred by Philip Mangone, a cost-and-suit manufacturer, after jumping from the burning German dirigible Hindenburg in New Jersey.

Focuses on the increase in the number of U.S. visitors to Germany in 1938, according to statistics of the British government. Reason for the increase.

The article offers some comments on the policies of the U.S. government in the areas of immigration, transportation, and taxation. Several alien offenders who were deported in other countries could find a ready refuge in the U.S. A senator from Missouri noted that the Civil Aeronautics Authority has already a pay roll in excess of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Twenty-one states in the country have received more in relief payments and farm subsidies that what they paid in Federal taxes.