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...Trade? The Japanese should know that Communist trade rarely works out as advertised, and usually contains more propaganda than produce. Last year's barter deal with China for $170 million in raw materials such as iron ore and lumber in return for finished products from Japan has yet to produce its first delivery. Nevertheless, Japan's economy is so shaky that businessmen are clamoring for more business with China despite U.S. pressures. They think the fact that trade would strengthen China in the cold war is not as important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also...
...LUMBER prices are picking up again in the Northwest in anticipation of heavy spring building. While the market is still down from a year ago, demand has pushed prices up 10% from this winter's low levels...
...single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber and cattle provide work for more than 20,000 Nicaraguans. To get his produce to world markets, he has organized a private merchant marine, the Mamenic Line...
JOHN L. LEWIS, who rarely loses a battle in the coal fields, has lost a bitter, 16-month fight to organize West Virginia's Independent League of Widen Miners (some 600 members) under the U.M.W. banner. The miners, working at the big Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. at Widen, one of the largest outside Lewis' union, refused to join because their pay is higher than the union average and their dues much lower (50?a month v. $4 plus for the U.M.W...
...years after the biscuit story, Glasgow was working as editor of the Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...