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The article offers information on the shortage of newsprint in the U.S. in 1973. "The Wall Street Journal" revealed to readers that it was cutting editorial, news and advertising space and limiting on newsstand copies. In addition, dailies and weeklies with no big standing orders from suppliers, no capacity to stockpile big quantities of newsprint and no private mills were taking more drastic steps. The "Rapid City Journal" has already halted publishing Saturday editions to economize dwindling paper supplies.

The article discusses the state of the Canadian logging industry in 1953. The author reports that the output of Canada's pulp and paper industry reached 1 billion U.S. dollars in 1952. The author adds that the Canadian logging industry pays more workers more wages and operated on more invested capital than any other Canadian industry.

The article reports that newspapers can expect reductions of from 5 percent to 15 percent in the amount of paper they want in 1951. The reasons for the trend include the increased British spending on newsprint from Canada. Another is the fact that U.S. newspapers have gone bigger that they are now using 60 percent of the total world supply.

The contestant said she was barred for political reasons from entering China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the economic condition of the gross national product (G.N.P.) in Canada. It mentions that Toronto Stock Exchange has listed a lost of 5 billion dollars in paper values since the June market whereas the key industries in the country have felt the impact of the economic crisis such as automobile companies, and newsprint production. Meanwhile, the Conservative government in Ottawa has worked on numerous economic remedies such as government cash advances on stored grain.

The article reveals how Russian "Tass" newsman Leo C. Pisarev who was working in the Netherlands was arrested for spying for the Communist party. He cultivated a relationship with a rank-and-file employee of the Dutch government from whom he tried to get classified information through bribery. The government employee reported it to The Netherlands' security police who hatched a counterespionage plan by preparing fake counterespionage papers. The employee brought the papers at a designated place where police promptly arrested the spy.

The article reports on the opening of the Elk Falls newsprint mill in Vancouver Island, the first paper mill to be constructed in Canada after 14 years.

The article reports that the U.S. Office of Price Stabilization director Mike Di Salle has tried to stop the move of Canadian newsprint manufacturers to increase their prices.

The article focuses on the president of Canadian Pulp and Paper Association Robert M. Fowler who spoke for Canada's Number 1 export industry. It mentions that Fowler pointed out that the U.S. and British capital have brought new industries in Canada as well as new jobs, technical skills, and a new door to markets. Fowler also noted that Canadians should not promote the differences of policy as a show of independence towards U.S.

The article announces the merger of the "Quebec Daily Chronicle" and "Weekly Gazette." The disappearance of historic newspapers in North America is compared with the disappearance of historic trees in the region. "Quebec Daily Chronicle" was founded in 1764, while "Weekly Gazette" is the oldest paper in Canada.

The article offers information on chemonucleolysis. Seen as a revolutionary treatment for intervertebral disk hernias, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its use. Dr. Lyman Smith sees it as a victory when he was intrigued with a paper by Dr. Lewis Thomas, studying alterations of protein concentrations in blood. Smith then studies the effect of the papaya enzyme chymopapain. Although anaphylactic shock can occur, the FDA accounts its rare mortality rate.

The article reports that "Chicago Tribune" publisher Robert R. McCormick was praised by Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis for his huge investments in Canada, including the 90,000-horsepower hydroelectric plant that he inaugurated with Duplessis.

The article announces that Charles B. Templeton was appointed features editor at Star newspaper in Canada.

The article discusses several aspects of a 15-year-long global effort to ban blood diamonds (conflict diamonds) as of 2015, and it mentions the problems and misery that are associated with the conflict diamond industries in places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Diamond mining work is addressed, along with the claim that Africa's mines are home to 65 percent of the world's diamonds. The Kimberley Process international certification system for diamonds is also examined.

The article discusses businessmen and brothers Charles and David Koch who are revamping their campaign funding strategy in order to help get a Republican candidate elected as America's president in 2016. The Koch brothers' views about the U.S. Export-Import Bank and corporate tax breaks are mentioned, along with criminal-justice reform proposals in America. According to the article, Koch brothers-related groups are expected to spend about 889 million dollars before Election Day 2016.

The article discusses several aspects of a painkiller addiction crisis in the U.S. as of June 2015, and it mentions the impacts that physician-authorized drug prescriptions for relief from pain and suffering are having on the American society. According to the article, opioids such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, and morphine contain chemical structures which are similar to the narcotic heroin. An HIV infection outbreak in Scott County, Indiana is examined, along with needle exchange programs.