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...carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet of Finnish, Swedish and German windjammers has set out for Britain from Australia, scupper-deep with Australian wheat. They call it the "grain race...
Last January Australians watched the first two of the old steel-hulled plugs sail off on the 15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they...
Cold ran the blood of a Finnish farmer one day in 1931. His 2-year-old child had been playing outside his cottage near the Russian border. Now the baby was gone. He and his friends searched far & wide, found no trace...
...Finns in Finland last week, the Christmas campaign in Ingria began by seizing a total of nine Lutheran churches and arresting the Lutheran clergy. At Ranpyva the former Lutheran church had become a State cowbarn last week. At Retykyla enthusiastic Godless comrades organized a Godless Seminary, drummed up Finnish peasants who glumly took their places as students, will emerge after a course in Godlessness as "Godless Apostles...
...Through a typographical error TIME gave the impression last week that International Paper Co. cut newsprint prices to get business. Not International but Canada's Price Bros, cut the price. International met the competition. It was also stated in TIME that Finnish newsprint has been available in San Francisco as low as $33 per ton. This figure, widely printed, has been denied...