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The article focuses on the shift of Lord Baltimore Press of Baltimore, Maryland from a print shop to a boxmaker. Lord Baltimore Press sales manager W. Taylor Bouchelle states that the company uses the lithography process called Fidel-I-Tone to reproduce color photos. It says that the company expanded its sales setup and production facilities wherein half of the facilities were used for Fidel-I-Tone business. It adds that the plant was considered as the first plant to install Linotype machines.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. in 1943. The War Production Board (WPB) have enforced new restrictions on the production of folding and set-up boxes to save 21,000 tons of paper and paperboard. The application of vital metals in the manufacture of secondary electrical distribution equipment has been limited by the said board. A 10 percent quota increase has been granted to food manufacturers of molasses and sirup beginning October 1, 1943.

The article reports that U.S. businesses which rely on folding paper boxes for packaging are worried over the prospects of the paperboard industry which is running short of raw material. The U.S. Office of Production Management (OPM) has given its refusal for issuing priorities for adding mill capacity. OPM has appealed folding box manufacturers to save 25% of the raw material for making folding boxes as the defense requirements are expected to rise further.