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Even the Soviet Union, with its spring grain being sowed earlier than at any time since the Revolution, was now able to send the satellites of Eastern Europe something better than propaganda. Everywhere the winter wheat was ripening. Europe's prospects, plus the likelihood of bumper crops in Argentina and Australia, were already discernible in the break in the U.S. grain market (see BUSINESS). Europe's industry was benefiting in healthier, happier workers. With less coal going into family stoves, there was more for factory furnaces. In the Ruhr, absenteeism was down to three-fifths of last year...
However, Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, dissented from his colleagues, guessing that prices might stay down in view of the winter bumper crops...
Farmers took in some $30 billion cash on their bumper crops, 22% more than in 1946. Financially the farmers, after four prosperous years of war and two of peace, were better off at 1947's end than they had ever been before. Yet they were less than satisfied. One midwesterner (with possible exaggeration) wrathfully wrote his Congressman: "For one fat hog we can get a carpenter for two days. For one 14-month-old steer, at 25? a pound, we can get ten pieces of 1 x 2 inch board, 10 feet long, second quality." Though farmers complained...
With the pinball vacationist has departed the simple, wide open hundred dollar machine; the New Look in pinball apparatus is a $400, 50 magnet, hundred relay contraption that can take a lusty belt in the back. In the old days there were scarcely more than ten bumpers on the whole playboard, perhaps one or two runways, and no bonuses. Total score and tripping every bumper were the only ways to rack up free games; but the new devices coming out of Chicago, the pinball capital of the world, contain never fewer than a dozen bumpers, a horde of runways...
...pounds of potatoes a week during the long nights of rationing, patient Britons could find small comfort in the advice of the great epistler, but last week a clutch of lesser literary lights were doing their best to make up for Britain's lack of spuds with a bumper crop of digestible macaronics. Sample from the Evening Standard...