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...Great Britain and West Germany, have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force), production has fallen, and investment is at a virtual standstill. Forest products-including paper and pulp-which employ over 20% of the work force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others...
...Corp., the nation's No. 1 producer, and the United Steelworkers union, the impact of the strike is spreading. Some equipment and chemical firms have laid off help, and state welfare officials are paying an estimated $4,000 a day to idled workers, including some strikers. Sales have fallen among railroads and truckers, and banks report a substantial drop in the clearings and debits that reflect the pace of the state's economy...
...Skelm used to be a mining village. Small huts dot the side streets, soot stains mar the windows, and houses tip at crazy angles because of the mines below. Since World War II, the mines have been going out of business one-by-one. Unemployment has soared and wages fallen...
Following Baker and junior Doug Hardin to the finish were Dick Howe and Bob Stempson. Stempson was the key man in last week's victory over Brown and Howe is a veteran who, until today, had fallen below Coach Bill McCurdy's predictions of big things...
Possibly worse for the Castro regime, the world price for sugar has fallen to a new low of about two cents a pound. Russia pays six cents for Cuban sugar under a special trade agreement. (Before the Revolution, the United States gave a similar preferential price to the Cubans.) This year Cuba is reportedly committed to send Russia 4 million tons, a commitment it will not meet. Two years ago, with a crop of 5.3 million tons, Cuba had to buy sugar from Mexico in order to fulfill its international contracts...