Paper size impossible to encounter ISO standard papers in day-to-day uses, with "Carta" (Letter), "Oficio" (Government-Legal) and "Doble carta" (Ledger/Tabloid) being nearly universal. In Canada, US paper sizes are a de facto standard. The government, however, also uses ISO paper sizes. There is an additional paper size, , to which the name "Government-Letter" was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG). It was prescribed by Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming
Ledger Syndicate was particularly active in the 1920s, when it launched a number of comic strips, including such long-running titles as "Connie", "Dizzy Dramas", "Dumb-Bells", "Hairbreadth Harry", and "Modish Mitzi". In 1933, just as the concept of "comic books" was getting off the ground, Eastern Color Printing began producing small comic broadsides for the Ledger Syndicate, printing Sunday color comics from 7" x 9" plates. Eastern Color sales manager Harry I. Wildenberg and his coworkers realized that two such plates would fit on a tabloid-sized page; later that year, Wildenberg created the first modern-format comic book when idly folding a newspaper into