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Four Los Angeles dailies last week jacked their prices up from 7-c- to a dime. The city's fifth paper, the tabloid Mirror, jumped from 5-c- to 7-c-. Explained Hearst's Examiner: "It costs just three times as much to print and distribute the Examiner today as it did in 1940." Newsprint costs alone had rocketed from $50 to $116 a ton.

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