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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.

The article presents the short story "Fly Paper," by Octavus Roy Cohen.

Presents the short story "Just Get My Name in the Paper!," by Norman Katkov.

Presents the short story "The Paper Went to Bed," by Louise Kennedy Mabie.

Presents the short story "Paper Chase," by Lois Montross.

The article profiles Dard Hunter, honorary curator of the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dard Hunter dedicated his life to research about paper and printing. He has been collecting, writing, as well as publishing history and information on papermaking. He has published books about paper, and made collections of paper from different places of the world.

Reviews the motion picture "The Paper Chase," starring Timothy Bottoms, John Houseman and Lindsay Wagner.

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 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.

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.

The article relates the career developments of Edward Douglas Woodyard, a journalist of Times-Record, who now successfully runs a number of news paper in Spencer, West Virginia. He was first hired as the reporter for the Times-Record, and his assignment was to make a report about his hometown. He now spends much of his time at the office of the Woodyard Associates, to get national advertising, buying paper and supplies, and systematizing accounting methods.

The article presents the short story "Botts Is Back–With All Papers in Order," by William Hazlett Upson.

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.

Presents information on "The Evening Bulletin" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Highlights of the career of the late William L. McLean of "The Evening Bulletin" in newspaper ownership; Potential contributions that new columnists Paul Jones and Ralph W. Page could provide to the bulletin amid the changing principles; Marketing strategy of the newspaper.

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.

Presents a commentary of humorous nature discussing paper shortage and its failure to produce changes for the better. Prevention of the department stores from enclosing self-addressed envelopes with their monthly bills and continuing to insert a complete file of propaganda in favor of their products; Use of two envelopes in sending a letter of invitation; Failure to eliminate the slip of tissue paper from the toe of new socks.

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.

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 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.

Presents the poem "Paper Boy's Pop," by Richard F. Armknecht. First Line: Delivering papers to porches and; Last Line: If I spoiled Junior's reputation!

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.

The article presents the poem "Paper Work," by Edward A. Lawrence. First Line: I file everything, so; Last Line: I take everything out.

The article presents the poem "Lay Aside Your Paper," by Lysbeth Boyd Borie. First Line: YES, yes, you love me. Yes, yes, I know. Last Line: Against the shriveled winter of our middle age.

The article presents the poem "Washington Papers, Please Copy!," by Phil Stack. First Line: Who remembers way back when; Last Line: A man in debt got out again?

The article presents the poem "A Schoolbook's Better Reading Than a Paper!" by LoVerne Wilson Brown. First Line: An iron curtain; Last Line: In my son's science course!

The article presents a joke about the use of paper clips in the British Army.

Focuses on women employees of a company who contributed pounds of wastepaper to the salvage campaign. Effort of a girl office worker to collect newspapers and magazines; Total volume of wastepaper bundles brought by the girls at the company's office.

The article presents the poem "In Re the Paper Shortage," by G. Wigwood. First Line: Woodman, chop that tree, Last Line: But I must read it now.

The article presents the poem "All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers," by P. Bracken. First Line: WHEN I study the lives of my betters, Last Line: dering Eye?

Profiles Amasa Kinzer, owner of Rosanna Paper Co. Use of machinery by Kinzer in making paper; Background on his family; Succession of the company by Kinzer from his father in 1850.

Presents the short story "The Foolscap Rose Unfolding," by Joseph Hergesheimer.

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 deals with the uses of paper. It cites the method of delivering food and medicine performed by the U.S. Army in the Pacific islands. The Army used paper containers in dropping supplies in the surf and allowed those to float in with the tide. In Alaska, Guadalcanal and other outposts, paper has been used in insulating huts.

Presents the author's experience of constructing a reform calendar. Report that the author and his wife went to a party where he had a glass of champagne; Information on the need of calendar reform by the author as told to his wife by a priest; Plans of the author to deliver a lecture on his own calendar reform.

The article presents information about how American Bank Note Co. fends off counterfeiters and thieves. Despite the creative ability needed to transform mere paper into something of more value, absolute security is the company's greatest asset. Each piece of paper entering the plant must be traced throughout the production process and counted between twenty-two and twenty-seven times. Each shipment that leaves the plant must be sealed to prevent tampering, and although no company shipment has ever been highjacked, delivery of the currency to customers has sometimes demanded originality and even daring on the part of company personnel.

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.

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.

Suggests alternative uses of old copies of "The Saturday Evening Post." Shoe trees; Self-defense weapon; Therapeutics; Paper profit.

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.

Looks at the political and economic difficulties that beset the Soviet Union and threaten its stability and standing as a world power in 1973. Subjects that are usually being discussed by Chinese missions in their visit to capitals of the non-communist world; Cause of the Sino-Soviet conflict which was first indicated buy the Russian Communiqué of November 4, 1956; Factors that drive the Soviet Union towards reappraisal of its global policies.

The article explores the industrial uses and potential applications of titanium metal. The metal can be found in the sands of the black beaches along the Atlantic coast in Florida and Oregon. The strength, lightness and hardness of titanium will benefit the U.S. Navy. The metal is an ideal material for the handles of kitchen pots and pans due to poor heat conductivity. It is also used to add whiteness and opacity to papers.

Reviews several motion pictures. "A Touch of Class," directed by Melvin Frank and starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson; "Blume in Love," starring George Segal and Susan Anspach; "Paper Moon," starring Ryan O'Neal.

Focuses on a paper signed by martyred nurse Edith Cavell which was sold to New York autograph collector Thomas F. Madigan by a Belgian freighter captain who claimed in charge of the men who executed her.

Presents humorous verses on government paper restrictions.

The article presents comments and questions of children to their fathers and their father's reply. A son asks his father why his father looks so hurried and why his father rough the pages of his paper. A daughter comments that his father seemed to never dote on current news and the views of experts and thought them boring.

The article presents information on the decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to favor the use of paper containers as bottles by a milk company in a case it filed against a health board of a city served by the firm. Just when the company has started to replace its bottling machinery with a new system for packaging milk in processed hard-paper containers, the board ordered that all milk delivered to its area for resale to be in transparent containers.

This article profiles Anthony De Angelis, noted businessman and owner of vegetable oil refineries in New Jersey. The famous Soy Bean Scandal which struck the Wall Street last year has destroyed the New York brokerage firm, Haupt & Co., and forced another prominent brokerage, J. R. Williston & Beane Inc., into a merger. All of these companies had one thing in common, that they loaned money against or otherwise accepted at face value innumerable slips of paper representing the assets of Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp., controlled by De Angelis. On paper, Allied's assets consisted of enormous quantities of soybean, cotton-seed and other oils, which it kept in tanks at Bayonne, New Jersey. De Angelis set out single-mindedly to make himself the biggest fats and oils operator in the U.S. When he succeeded, he relished the power it gave him to move oil and men, and lusted for even greater coups.

The article focuses on the effect of negligence of U.S. citizens to buy War Savings Bonds on the inflation of the country in 1942. There was an increase in money supply of the country which was caused by the negligence. The failure of the citizens to buy War Savings Bonds influenced the U.S. Treasury to create new money to cover its war bills. The money created by the government to pay war bills are not paper money.