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The article describes how Time Incorporated's acquisition of two paper mills is enabling the continuous supply of paper for the publishing company as of October 27, 1945. The author also reports that Time has announced its acquisition of the Maine Seaboard Paper Co. of Bucksport, Maine from Coffin & Burr Inc. and the First Boston Corp. Time had earlier purchased the paper-making properties of Bryant Paper Co.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Presents information on a scandal in newsprint industry. Establishment of a Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee, comprising of publishers, managing editors and general managers of major papers all around the U.S.; Issuance of the Printing and Publishing General Limitation Order L-240, by the War Production Board (WPB); Order restricting newspapers to 100 percent of their newsprint use of 1941, which would have been a cut of about 10 percent of 1942 figures; Influence of the shortage of pulp on the newsprint cuts; Recommendation by the Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee for curtailments running upto five percent of 1941's consumption for the largest papers; Impact of these cuts on circulations of small and medium dailies; Opinion of Republicans and a few reactionary Democrats that the newsprint cut was an elaborate attempt to destroy press; Investigation into the newsprint curtailment; Allegations on WPB for deliberately imposing the curtailments for purposes of censorship; Suggestions of curtailing the advertisers space to reduce wastage of paper.

The article discusses the criticism of the U.S. for manipulating the source of paper supply as a way to suppress the freedom of the press worldwide during a meeting of periodical editors in Madras, India. The Indian editors and newsmen believed that the American newspaper publishers have taken the entire output of the Canadian paper mills by making long-term contracts. The Indian publishers have been forced to pay up to 300 U.S. dollars per ton while the American publisher paid only 100-125 U.S. dollars per ton.

Presents several letters to the editor about various articles published in the previous issues of the periodical "The Nation." Definition of sound money by M.L. Scudder, Secretary of the Chicago Honest Money League; Advantage of manila paper over white paper for school children; Research on evils of white paper used for printing books.

This article presents information on the closing down of many publishing houses which published British periodicals. Since the end of last year more than twenty-three journals have ceased publication or have merged with others, or have appeared less frequently than they did. All of them represented an extraordinary diversity of opinion and interest. The basic trouble causing the closure is the cost of paper. There are many types of paper, from newsprint to art paper, and the rise in cost varies from 100 to 160 percent, but the difficulties are also due to advertising fluctuations.

The article presents information on publishers. Just what contents one can expect from the reprint houses depends on the output of trade publishers and the economics of paper-book distribution. If it were simply a matter of reproducing those titles which have sold best in hard-cover editions, then best-sellers and book club selections would automatically be transformed into paper books. But experience has taught reprint publishers that such works, artificially inflated and jammed down the throats of book buyers, are often dismal failures when exposed on their merits to the mass market, without promotion.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding several previous articles and various socio-political issues and developments. Corrections related to the article "True George Washington"; Suggestions for publishers of magazines and periodicals to reduce wastage of time on paper cutting; Corrections to the article on issues related to the Cretan insurrection of 1866-1868, in Greece.

The current industrialization of Christianity has now reached another milestone with publication of a new Methodist magazine— "Together." With a pre-publication order upped from 600,000 to 700,000 by the clamor of anxious voices who wanted to get "Together," and the confident expectation of a cool 1,000,000 circulation early this year, the Methodists have the hottest thing in the publishing world since "Playboy" began its rise. "Together" rose from the ashes of the 130-year-old "Christian Advocate" and is aimed at the popular market.

The article presents information on the Chicago newspaper "The Sun." It was the most violently belligerent paper in the U.S. during its early stages. Chicago was led to expect a great paper. Chicagoans disagreed as to what constituted a great paper, but they agreed on certain factors. It would be well written and well edited. It would be mechanically excellent. It would be complete. It would be independent. It would be original. And-this went without saying in Chicago it would be a lighting paper. The bourgeoisie was sure it would fight the Kelly machine. The progressives were sure it would fight the "Tribune."

The article discusses the publication of papers belonging to the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, by the "New York Times." The publication of papers was surrounded by debate that whether the press could be faulted for not pinpointing key Administration actions much earlier. Freelance Journalist Walter Pincus, in New York magazine, accused the Washington press corps for not taking high officials to task on Indochina policy.

The article focuses on the disputes between two magazines "Kids," and "The Hoot Owl." It states that the motto of Kids magazine is 'By children for each other' and the first issue of "The Hoot Owl," the motto on the front page was 'By kids, for kids, about kids." It states that the biweekly newspaper "The Hoot Owl," appears to be a bit jealous as it has been struggling for five hard months with next to no recognition, while "Kids," gained national attention within a month. It also mentions that the magazine "Kids," has published its first issue on November 30, 1971, with the Kids as editors. It states that the first issue of the monthly literary magazine, printed on good quality paper with plenty of color illustrations.

The article presents information on the underground press. The underground press has become a kind of suburban press all its own-- a suburban press for the hippie and dropout set. The three basic commodities in today's underground newspaper-- the advertising, the calendar of events and the artistic and political commentary-- all have a parallel in the suburban press. Because the mores of the two audiences are different, the content of the advertisements, the calendars and the commentaries is different too; in the underground papers, the ads are vulgar, the calendars refer to love-ins rather than Little League and the commentaries are critical and left wing rather than laudatory and conservative.

The article focuses on the growth of the book publishing industry which starts in 1942 when 200,000,000 volumes of books are published in the U.S. It claims that production in 1943 is estimated at 400 million and volumes are mass produced for the Armed Forces. It also indicates that a large part of the total number of published volumes is accounted to mass output of reprints and paper-bound, pocket-size books, and book club circulations.

Presents information about the ever-increasing length of books. Reasons behind the increasing length of books; Advantages of publishing lengthy books; Suggestion of the author to writers and publishers of writing and publishing shorter books due to shortage of paper; Discussion of the book "Generation of Vipers," by Philip Wylie which focuses on American middle-class customs that has ever been made outside the totalitarian countries.

This article reports on the joint publication of an issue by the competing newspapers "The Oregonian" and "The Oregon Journal" in January 1960. The publishers made the move as their managements recruit and train replacement staffs. The move was an effort to counter a strike of their staff. The labor union Stereotypers opposed the introduction of a machine by the publishers.

The article discusses the need for cooperation among subscribers and publishers in order to prevent a substantial waste of paper in unnecessary correspondence in the U.S. The author mentions that publications should take precautions against unintentional discontinuance of subscriptions. He affirms that subscription renewals should be sent immediately upon receipt of the first expiration notice.

The author commends the newspapers owned by publisher William Randolph Hearst, such as the "New York Evening Journal" and the "New York American" for their role in running down so-called bucketshops or fraudulent brokerage firms in New York City.

The article reports on the decision of Sheldon F. Sackett, publisher of the "Coos Bay Daily Times" in Oregon to buy the financially troubled "Los Angeles Daily News" from its publisher Robert Smith. Sackett offered 1,525,000 million U.S. dollars to Smith, paid a down payment of 20,000 U.S. dollars and pledged to pay 580,000 U.S. dollars by the end of 1953. The business background of Sackett and the resignation of the law firm that represented him for 13 years are discussed.

The article presents information about various periodicals published during November 1867. "Hours at Home" for this month is also a very good number and as one have more than once said before, of a magazine that is improving constantly. A scholar discourses of the "Moral Uses of Things Unsightly and Disgusting," and justifies their existence by some good and some ingenious reasons. This is the ninth paper of the series and none of the nine has been unprofitable. Author U.M. Towle writes, better than one has known him to write before, of "The French Corps Législatif and its Leaders."

This article explains that the labor dispute between the New York Publishers Association and the International Typographical Union is not only about simply labor-management problem as it is also an attempt by the union to recover its old influence in the face of technological changes. The labor strike by Local 6 of the union is already on its fourth week and newspaper buyers in New York are already complaining. It describes the union's wage increase and fringe benefit demands as unrealistic.

A recent number of the journal gave the substance of the report of Italian ministers on the Forced Paper Circulation of Italy, and the proper measures for its extinction. The law of April, 1874, which called forth that report, made it also the duty of ministers to report upon the banking and paper-money systems of other countries now under a suspension of specie payments. The report lately published, relates to the United States and Russia, another relating to Austria and France will shortly appear, and will complete the series. Aside from the signal ability with which these reports have been prepared, they will have great value from their contemporaneous character. It will be found that while the financial history of each country has characteristics of its own, and peculiar local influences producing certain local results, the great underlying and controlling principles are everywhere the same, and that there is a growing tendency to give them the same treatment in all countries.

The article examines the state of the paper-bound books industry in the U.S. as of January 1953. It was observed that paper-bound publishers are producing original material and that the quality of paper-bound books are being upgraded which causes their price to increase. Highlighted is the case of Ballantine Books Inc. which partnered with Houghton Mifflin Co. to publish a new book in paper-bound and hard-cover at once. Meanwhile, J.K. Lasser reported that sales of trade books for the first 10 months of 1952 has risen to 15% from the same 1951 period.

The article features the Oxford University Press, which celebrated its 475th anniversary in November 1953. The Press has branch offices in Toronto, Ontario, Bombay, India, and the U.S., among others. It boasts that it is the only book publisher with its own paper mill, and has the world's largest permanent catalogue. Its first published book was "Commerntary on the Apostles' Creed." in 1478.

The article discusses the newspaper strike in New York City that posit a problem to companies, to promotion-minded businesses and to the general public in the U.S. in 1963. It points out that although businessmen are feeling the pressure, they are not struggling because of the strike since business failures were experienced since 1962. It indicates that while New Yorkers are informed of the news via television and radio, they miss the papers and will not lost the newspaper habit due to the strike.

The article discusses the impact of stories published on the periodical "Time" on the lives of the readers. It explains that since the April 1973 issue of the journal which featured a story about the flying ability of a paper airplane, Richard Kline, an advertising executive who created the paper airplane, has received inquiries expressing interest in producing plastic models of the plane. The impact of the story about the cruisers built by Westsail Corp. and the playing of tunes on pushbutton telephones are also highlighted.

The article presents several Los Angeles, California convention papers centering around the theme of "The Neglected World of Presentations." Copies of the convention papers may be secured without charge by writing to David L. Woods of the Navy Department Speech Bureau in Washington, D.C. The titles of the papers and their authors are "Presentations: A Semantic Illusion?" by David L. Woods, head of the Program Support Branch of the Department Speech Bureau, "The Sales Presentation: Form and Function," by Charles C. Guthrie, sales development manager of the "New York Times" newspaper, "Philosophy on Oral Presentations," by C. R. Gould, audio-visual coordinator for the Orlando Division of the Martin-Marietta Corp. in Florida, "Oral Communication in the North American Air Defense Command," by First Lieutenant Larry D. Browning of Audio-Visual Services of the U.S. Air Force at NORAD Headquarters of the Ent Air Force base in Boulder, Colorado and "A Pre-Sell Presentation for a Garden," by Robert M. Garrick of Robert M. Garrick Associates in Los Angeles, California.

Discusses the censorship on the newspaper "Palestine Post," in Palestine. Explanation by the British regarding imposition of the marital law; Comment by correspondent Daniel Agronsky, that censorship is the most irritating of the limitations that make the publication of a daily paper; Implication by the British that a paper can be punished for "failing to cooperate" if it refuses to publish a government-inspired story as well as if it publishes a censorable one.

When U.S. editor and newspaper publisher Roy Howard steered his papers out of their traditional left-of-center channel he was not content to limit his attentions to the editorial columns. The forces that moved Howard to address himself to that upper-crust 5 per cent of the population that Old Man Scripps had warned against could hardly be expected to spend themselves in those dreary wastes-- and they didn't. Scripps-Howard funnies, sports and helpful hints in the kitchen retain their virginity, but not much else has escaped the advances of the editorial censor. Howard denies passionately that he lays a heavy hand on his papers, but his indignation does as much violence to the facts as it does honor to his sensitivity. Particularly long-suffering are the political columnists.

The article features "Le Figaro," a French daily founded in 1826 and published in Paris. The paper considers itself the voice of the Catholic middle class and has been virulently anti-communist. Some time ago, their stance caused the French Communist Party to burn its papers and attack its offices, but such increased their circulation to 400,000. Its managing director is Pierre Brisson, who has refused to resign despite attempts to fire him by the publication's owner, Yvonne Cotnareanu. The paper's history since its founding is described.

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 article focuses on the condition of the English Newspaper in war time. During the war, its burden fell more and more heavily upon newspaper publishers and editors. They were hampered by the increasing scarcity and cost of raw material, by the difficulty of transport and distribution through the depleted train services, and by the reduction of their editorial and mechanical staff through enlistment and conscription. The rise in the price of print paper has proved the most serious handicap of all.

The article offers information on several rumors of plans of U.S. publishing houses for new publications following indications of relaxation of publishers' quotas in the U.S. One of the rumors was that the experimental staff of Time Inc. was working on atleast two magazines including one on women's home and service and another a journal of opinion. Another rumor was that Fawcett Publications Inc. has expansive plans for several new titles including a fashion magazine.

The article discusses new problems U.S. publishers face after threats of additional paper cuts have been postponed by the War Production Board until July 1, 1943. Magazine men are said to be hesitant to sign up new contracts that would run beyond July. It cites Cleveland, Ohio's Penton Publishing Co. which stopped its publication of "Daily Metal Trade" to free manpower and mechanical facilities for its other publications. It talks about advertisement space rationing recommended by organizations such as the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

This article focuses on the investment approach of Samuel I. Newhouse, a businessman engaged in the newspaper publishing industry. It notes that Newhouse continue to make profits in an industry where even the established newspapers are finding hard to post a profit amid competition from television and capital shortages. Newhouse latest acquisition as of March 11, 1967 is the "Cleveland Plain Dealer," which he bought for 50 million dollars. Determining the business growth potential by the area it serves is part of his approach.

This article provides the best-selling stories published in newspapers in the U.S. in 1923. "The St. Louis Post-Despatch" prints pictures of local débutantes as they look now and as they looked ten years ago. A newspaper in Dayton, Ohio, publishes a daily interview with some prominent people. A weekly periodical in Kansas prints a column titled " My Lucky Accident."