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Bellingham's supermarketmen have been taking it longer than most because their city's lumber and fishing industries slipped early. Pilferage soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
EXPORT-HUNGRY CANADA, hoping to ease wheat glut and dependence on U.S. trade, will make hard sales pitch to Red China. Canada recently closed first big wheat deal (1,700,000 million bu.) with Red China since Korean war, now wants to step up sales of lumber and chemicals, boost exports to China above the $55 million yearly level attained during pre-Communist days...
...housing market, already clipping along toward 1,050,000 new housing starts this year. Its goal: to raise the totals by another 100,000 houses, create 500,000 new jobs this year, and lay a solid floor under those sagging industries that lean heavily on home construction-appliances, lumber, transport...
...swarmed into mines, farms, factories. Forty percent of the scientists and engineers added to Canada's working force since 1950 were foreign-born; last year's newcomers included 1,838 teachers, 635 physicians, 54,376 skilled workers. Immigrants founded one of the West Coast's major lumber companies; another immigrant developed the nation's biggest uranium mine. Foreign-born artists organized new ballet companies in Toronto and Winnipeg, wrote some of Canada's best postwar books...
...earth of the Ukrainian steppes, she came to the U.S. with her parents when she was four, settled with them in Rockland, Me., where the interlocking arms of heavy timber and the gentle twigs of rocky bush excited her imagination. While her family made a good living out of lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, then went to Germany, where she worked (in 1931) with Painter Hans Hofmann. In 1940 Karl Nierendorf (who championed...