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The article reports on the shortage of paper in the U.S. throughout most of the industries, due to the increase in business activity for which paper is being stockpiled. It is reported that the impact of the shortage will be widespread as paper is used in almost all the industries. It is reported that, paper makers in the country are also facing shortage of raw materials especially of wood pulp.

The article reports on decreased profits by U.S. paper companies after it undercuts prices in an effort to keep their big machines rolling at full speed. According to President William R. Kellet of Kimberly-Clark Corp., the paper industry is not out of woods but is starting to be optimistic ahead. Furthermore, Chairman David Luke adds that the paper industry generates 12 billion dollars a year and if it took advantage of wood chemicals, it could double their sales since the materials are free.

The article discusses the rising trend of term paper by the collegians in Boston, Massachusetts. It states that the reason appears under several names including Universal Termpapers, Termpapers Unlimited and Quality Bullshit. It states that the organizations have turned out around 4,000 term papers for the students willing to pay 3 dollar a page for standardized material and 6 dollar a page for custom-made. It also states that ghostwriting on a modest scale has been a campus ploy.

The article examines how newspaper exposure has favored more Republicans than Democrats in the U.S. electoral campaigns. It references a report by "The Sun (Baltimore)" journalist Frank R. Kent which cites that Republicans are represented in 7,500 small-town newspapers while Democrats only enjoy publicity in 2,500 newspapers. In comparison to rural dailies, Chicago-based publications have a dominantly Republican bias, while most New York newspapers are described as fair and non-partisan.

The article offers various U.S. business news relevant as of March 1, 1956. Topics include Ford Foundation's decision to discontinue the public offering of its stocks, liquor manufacturer Schenley Distillers' plans to sell its products in clear glass bottles, and an increase in European paper exports to the U.S. as a result of paper shortages in the country.

The article presents business news briefs from the U.S. as of September 15, 1949. Topics include information on trends in residential building, sales of television (TV) transmitters manufacturing companies, potential drops in the levels of production of the steel industry until December 1949. A potential shortage of supply in the cotton industry, the impact of the abbreviated work-week of mineworkers on the reserves in the field, and a June decrease in paper producion are also discussed.

The article presents business news briefs and forecasts for the United States as of April 15, 1948. Life insurance companies increased their real estate holdings for the first time in a decade. Research showed that television reception can extend beyond the line of sight. $400 million was spent to purchase new machinery for the paper industry.

The article presents news briefs from the world of business and industry current for July 15, 1931. Innovations in the paper and ink industry saved Montgomery Ward and Company money, companies issuing securities are thinking more about how to get investors to purchase their physical products as well, and telegraph companies are becoming more and more aware of market demand.

The article cites precedents for the low money rates in the U.S. in 1924. The current rate is the lowest one since the entry of the U.S. into World War I in April 1917. However, 1914, 1913, 1911 and 1912 have recorded cheaper money rates and commercial paper rates. A plan to reduce the New York Federal Reserve rediscount rate to lessen its gap with the market rates is being opposed.

It is now nearly 15 years—that is to say, nearly half of a generation—since gold and silver coin ceased to be the ordinary daily money of the country. Middle-aged men remember how coin passed current, and still look upon "legal-tenders" as a temporary expedient which will come to an end in a year or two, if not tomorrow. It is not to be supposed that the intelligent classes will ever fall into the barbarism of believing that paper is money, or that broken promises rank as high in the commercial world as good faith. The business community has grown rapidly in a clearer perception of the evils of the present system and of the necessity of returning to the only standard of value known to the world at large.

This section offers business news briefs in the U.S. in 1962. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. decided to implement a 5% decrease in base price of popular grades of stainless steel plates. A three-year test of the first broadcast pay-television in Hartford, Connecticut was started in July 1962. A complaint by the U.S. Department of Justice stated that paper mills and Michigan and Wisconsin as well some of the U.S. largest producers conspired to hold down payment prices for pulpwood.

The author comments on various issues related to business in the U.S. The Game-Naps paper napkins being offered by Dennison Manufacturing Co. have tick-tack-toe and other games and puzzles printed on them. R. L. Baldwin & Co. has blocked off windows from the inside at its department store in Durham, North Carolina, preventing outside light, air or dust from affecting the artificial lighting and ventilation.

The article discusses the career of newspaper publisher Frank Ernest Gannett (FEG) who died in 1957. It says that Gannett papers include "Democrat and Chronicle," "Times-Union," and "Knickerbocker News". It tells that Gannett has merged several papers including "Evening Star" with "Elmira Gazette," "Union & Advertiser" with "Times," and "Herald-Dispatch" with "Observer." It adds that Gannett Co. Inc. presidency was transferred to bureau chief Paul Miller after Gannett had spine fracture.

This section offers world news briefs related to business as of March 1937. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with American businesses to create a program participated by young business executives. A carload of lubricating oil was sent by the Consumers Cooperative Association to the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society in Glasgow, Scotland. Carnegie-Illinois Steel will construct a sheet and strip mill in Monongahela, Pennsylvania.

The article offers news briefs related to business in the U.S. which include, the closure of the U.S. government's tin smelter at Texas city, Texas on June 1956, the damage to peach crop in Georgia due to sudden climate changes, and the introduction of a short cut method to save pulp costs by Crown Zellerbach Corp.

Focuses on faults of the American journalism and the scope of improving it. Factors responsible for some improvement in American journalism; Role played by the American Newspaper Guild to increase the self-respect of the individual newspaperman; Prevalence of the censorship authority exercised by publishers; Drift of the newspaper into the hands of money-minded men who are interested in profits; Danger posed by monopoly in the press; Increasing tendency toward standardized and syndicated material; Over-representation of the middle class in the press; Need of newspapers with a far smaller capital investment, so that genuine competition will more easily be possible.

The article presents information about two books: "Douglas of the Supreme Court" and "The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren." Half of The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren and much the greater part of Douglas of the Supreme Court are selections of opinions. Offerings of this sort, a bit of a fashion in recent years, are extremely treacherous business at best. Of the many difficulties and dangers they are fraught with, hardly one occurs to the author that is solved or avoided in either of these books.

Presents a survey of the competition among daily newspapers in cities of the U.S. Function of more than 150 newspaper chains functioning in the United States; Focus on Chicago as the biggest newspaper town in the country; Use of the present rate of expansion as an indicator of the fact that daily newspapers will be owned by chains in a few years; Exercise of business acumen and consolidation of industry proceeds by newspaper publishers.

The article discusses the safety issues and news circulations on different papers in Mississippi. Columnist Tom Ethridge expresses that the safety of Senator Robert F. Kennedy is hoped to be guaranteed by Mississippi authorities when he visits Oxford. It also notes that the biggest papers in the state, with a combined circulation of 120,000, the morning "Clarion-Ledger" and the afternoon "Daily News" indulge in Yankee-baiting and race-baiting than any other papers in the South.

This section offers business-related news briefs as of March 1959. Holland's DAF car will be launched at the New York's International Auto Show from April 4, 1959 to April 12, 1959. Bowater Paper Corp., Great Britain's paper and print maker, will merge with Chester, Pennsylvania-based Scott Paper Co. to form Bowater-Scott Australia Ltd. Thyssen-Huette AG will acquire majority interest in Phoenix-Rheinhohr in West Germany.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Man Who Wants Montgomery Ward" in the October 2, 1954 issue, "Receding Waters Leave Cities High, Dry" in the October 16, 1954 issue and "The Paraphernalia That Goes With rank" in the October 16, 1954 issue.