But other industry stocks also showed significant gains with KapStone Paper and Packaging (KS), PF Glatfelter (GLT), Domtar (UFS), Neenah Paper (NP), Clearwater Paper (CLW) and Sonoco Products (SON) gaining 6.2%, 5.6%, 4.2%, 4.4%, 3.3% and 3.2%, respectively, during the same two-day period.

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The land on which White Oak sits has been in the Gilman family since the 1940s, when Charles Gilman, son of the founder of the Gilman Paper Co.

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"I got up, got everyone out, made sure my son got out, " Conway told the paper.

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His decision to rely on paper charts was often a source of embarrassment to his son, a one-time health IT consultant, whenever clients asked him what kind of electronic health record his father used.

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Paper plates were used at a luncheon in honor of his son Rishad's wedding a few years ago.

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His son Roberto, then just 21, took over, slowly building the paper into Rio de Janeiro's largest daily.

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When Donziger is not in Ecuador, he works out of the paper-strewn kitchen of a two-bedroom apartment that he shares with his wife and young son, on the Upper West Side.

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