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Show THE NEWS PRINT PRODUCTION PRO-DUCTION The paper manufacturing Indus' try represents an Investment of about $750,000,000 and employs 120,000 people. Four tons of coal, wood and chemicals chem-icals come Into a paper mill for ov-ery ov-ery ton ot finished product sent out. Each ton of paper that Is made requires re-quires one ton ot coal or Us fuel equivalent In oil. A cord of wood mukes 1,000 pounds of pulp. Paper manufacture has a hard problem to keep pace with consumption, dally newspapers alone having a clrcura-Hon clrcura-Hon of 27,000,000 copies. United States and Canada last year produc-,ed produc-,ed 2,183,000 tons ot news print pa-per, pa-per, production Increasing 6 per .cent annually. Print paper produc- j tton iucreased last joar 185,000 tons over 1918, and new plants this year will add 90,000 tons. New factories fac-tories building that will come Into pioductlon In 1922 will add news print at the rate ot 1500 tons dally. I |