Sign of the times
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February 17th, 2012 at 10:02 am
Wait… there’s a difference?
February 17th, 2012 at 10:07 am
Ironic, no? I wonder if the NYT and WaPo were some of their former customers.
February 17th, 2012 at 10:28 am
A step in the right – more productive – direction.
February 17th, 2012 at 11:07 am
(But you repeat yourself)
February 17th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Same product, now without liberal bias. Leaving you less inflamed.
February 17th, 2012 at 11:19 am
What you might call a niche market.
Though I sympathize, I sense a razor’s-edge balance in their business model. First, when my grandfather was a lumberjack up there, the demand was exclusively for hardwood, which became charcoal for the foundries of Gun Valley. Less than a century ago. Huh.
Until the 1929 crash, most of the softwood of Quebec was pulped into board and shipped to Europe to make paper there, some of which found its way back in the form of books. So, “paperwork” can be off-shored. That pulp stock was so cheap that it found a second use, as wallboard. I still have some.
Paper plants are EPA-sensitive and NIMBY-vulnerable. Anyone who thinks that good old American capital, industrial design and engineering know-how couldn’t “make a go of it” with Chinese labor rates, pollution regulation and shipping rates might as well shove his prospectus…well, we covered that.
There are a few things that we need to have available from a domestic source. Give me two good U-boats in the Pacific, and we’d all be barefoot in six weeks. This rates a notch or two higher on the list, wouldn’t you think?
February 17th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Comatus, it would have to be a very big pair of U-boats, with a lot of room to store torpedoes.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
If this doesn’t work out, they can always make fish wrapping material and bird cage liners. Minus the messy print of course.
February 18th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Of course that’s right, Ellen. I’ve heard some Dutch contend that if they’d had “milch-cows,” Guadalcanal &ff. would have been unnecessary. Highest kill rate of any flotilla in the war, and they ran out of torpedoes.
A willing foe, and sea room.