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Table 3—Newsprint: World Capacity, Production, Demand, and Supply, 1939-49

Table 4—Indices of Canadian Newsprint Costs and Prices, 1935-48

Table 5-Consumption of Fibrous Materials in Production of Paper and Paper Board in United States of America, 1939-47

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(Source : Newsprint Data, 1948) (In thousands of short tons) — Pre-war. 1946. 1947. 1948. 1949. 1 Existing machine capacity 10,496 9,431 9,693 9,844 10,079 2 Capacity actually in use or production 8,140 7,161 7,750 8,267 8,576 3 Idle machine capacity (line 1 minus 2,356 2,270 1,943 1,577 1,503 line 2) 10,208 10,478 4 Demand, no restrictions 8,130 8,792 9,343 5 Government restrictions Nil 1,075 1,163 1,284 1,452 6 Probable actual demand (line 4 8,130 7,717 8,180 8,924 9,026 minus line 5) 8,536 7 Supply obtained 8,130 7,167 7,843 8,231 8 Shortage from actual demand (line 6 Nil 550 337 693 490 minus line 7) 1,503 9 Idle capacity (line 3) 2,356 2,270 1,943 1,577 10 Shortage (line 3) .. .. Nil 550 337 693 490 11 Excess idle capacity (line 9 minus 2,356 1,720 1,606 884 1,013 line 10)

(Source : Newsprint Data, 1947) — 1935. 1939. 1946. 1947. 1948. Cost of wood per ton Mill labour per ton Canadian prices at New York 100 100 100 118 103 125 256 208 195 323 260 225 367 260* * Based on $104.

(Source : Statistics published by United States Pulp Producers' Association) (In tons of 2,000 lb.) Year. (1) Wood-pulp. (2) Other Fibrous Materials. Total Fibrous Waste Paper. (3) Rags. (4) Other. (5) Materials. (6) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 8,650,423 9,781,739 11,363,600 11,038,020 10,635,320 10,502,204 10,825,412 12,092,093 13,325,974 4,366,257 4,667,502 6,075,129 5,494,959 6,367,854 6,859,332 6,799,683 7,278,097 7,844,968 468,287 402,600 529,976 480,614 425,910 427,837 414,083 402,506 453,102 692,315 640,967 887,581 844,337 770,358 957,389 929,453 979,755 1,025,567 14,177,282 15,492,808 18,856,286 17,857,930 18,199,442 18,746,762 18,968,631 20,752,451 22,649,611