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...cost of wood for a single-family home-enough to hurt the home-building industry, which is finally pulling out of its recession. In addition, the industry and the Forest Service argue that clear-cutting makes good conservation sense. It is little different from harvesting grain, say foresters, and greatly benefits the replanting of Douglas fir and other valuable species that need plenty of sunlight to grow...
Falling Bricks. The ignorance is understandable: the Soviet Union keeps itself as difficult to read as a Five Year Plan. Partly for that reason, the American curiosity persists, especially in the ambiguous atmosphere of Soyuz-Apollo, grain deals, Angola and the apocalyptic visions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in exile. Also involved, of course, is the fascination of one great power with its rival...
Pressing their advantage, the Soviets have embarked on a new shipbuilding spree. Nationalistic logic would dictate that the new ships be more tankers to handle the U.S.S.R.'s swelling exports of oil and bulk carriers to haul imported grain and exported coal. But the Russians instead have ordered from their own and other Communist countries' shipyards 100 new dry-cargo vessels and 33 fast containerships-vessels clearly destined for general world trade...
...part of the inflationary wave that swept through the U.S. over the past three years hit consumers harder than spiraling prices at the supermarket. From 1972 to the end of last year, the cost of food jumped 42%, reflecting the price-boosting pressures of the big Soviet grain sales, drought, destructively heavy rains and lively speculation on commodity exchanges. Now the price wave seems to be subsiding. During the past six months, food prices rose by only 1.1%, and Agriculture Department economists forecast an increase of no more than 3% for the rest of 1976, compared with 8.5% last year...
...disaster affecting this year's corn, wheat or soybean crops could do it, but the impact would not be noticeable on market shelves until 1977. Although many farmers from Iowa to Texas are worried about a drought, and there has been some damage to the winter wheat crop, grain prices have so far been only slightly affected. The outlook is for continued calm, with the main beneficiaries-in this election year-being the millions of middle-and lower-income families that spend more of their available cash on food than wealthier Americans...