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...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...
...Finnish children, who had the most impressive collection, had used crayon in high, hot keys. The Scottish and English showed strong influences of modern art: they had obviously been to art galleries. The Swedes and Norwegians were neat, sure and uninspired. The French were the most elaborate...
...change at the frontier was electric. Just at the border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
...good way to find hidden minerals may be to study the plants and trees that grow in the neighborhood. In the current Mining and Metallurgy, Finnish Geochemist Kalervo Rankama tells why vegetation is a prospector's friend...
...laden water to the surface. When the water evaporates through the leaves, the minerals it carried remain in the plant's tissues, eventually falling to the ground and becoming part of the humus on the surface. Geophysicists analyze this "biologically enriched" layer and the leaves of growing plants. Finnish geochemists found a rich copper-nickel deposit by examining the ashes of birch leaves...