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...over the U.S. last week, the prices of meat and many other products rose with a rush that was painfully like the burst of inflation in 1948. Booming industrial production sent metal markets soaring: copper jumped 2? a Ib. to 22½?; nickel was up, and even magnesium, which hadn't shown a rise since 1943, moved up 1? a Ib...
Listening Audience. In Oroville, Calif., while alone at home listening to a radio program on painless childbirth, Mrs. Joyce Chapman gave unheralded and painless birth to her first child, a 3 Ib...
...LIFE-like magazine Ogonek, which uses U.S.-style layouts. Many Ogonek ads are similar to U.S. wartime institutional advertising, i.e., they boost goods not pres ently available. Other Ogonek displays feature the Mikoyan Meat Trust and that old Russian delicacy, caviar (see cut). Price: only 40 rubles ($10) a Ib...
...buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
...switched to Rumford, Me. in the search for deep snow. After shuttling 275 miles by bus and auto, Slaattvik, Hasu and 67 others took off at Rumford in a biting wind. Although nine nations were represented, it was strictly a Scandinavian show. First place went to a skinny, 145-Ib. Swedish store clerk named Karl-Erik Aaström. He poled through the drifts in 1 hr. 6 min. 16 sec. to become the world's individual 18-kilometer champion...