NEWSPRINT (revious erence: ###(45) h Meeting, ute 3. also ###.(45) 107) 1. THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL asked the Committee to consider a question affecting the size of newspapers which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had brought to his attention as requiring an immediate decision. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER informed the Committee that the newspaper proprietors had been authorised by the late Government to place for a sufficient quantity of newsprint contracts from Canada in 1946 and 1947 to make it possible for the size of newspapers to be increased in the autumn of 1945 from four pages to eight pages.
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/19/34
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 71/19
- Former Department Reference
- LP(45) 32nd Meeting
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000019.034
- Keywords
- Coal Emigration Factories Fuel Gas Masks Holidays Industrial Consumption Industrial Production Industry Law Material Supplies Medical Supplies Newspapers Paper Publicity Rationing Reserve Stocks
- Language
- English
- Organizations Discussed
- Lord President's Committee
- Pages
- 6
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Series
- Meetings 1(45) - 47(45)
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Industry Infrastructure Military Activity Home Defence Licensing Price Control Fuel Utilities Transport Travel Air Raid Precautions Civil Defence
