{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain memoranda, letters, reports, and other documents about the NYT's supply, consumption, inventory, and purchases of newsprint, industry conditions in general, newsprint contracts and prices, investments in mills, problems of shipping and quality, waste, wartime shortages and controls, the NYT's support of efforts to assure an equitable supply for smaller newspapers, and research and conservation efforts. Included are memoranda about efforts to reduce consumption (1950-1951), letters and memoranda about the shortage in Britain (1948-1951), correspondence about Canada's sales tax (1949), AHS's letter to a Senate committee accepting a rationing plan but warning of a possible threat to freedom of the press (1943), and a copy of the American Newspaper Publishers Association's brief opposing import duty on newsprint (1908).</p>"}