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...Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet markets...
Help. Overalled cops from the police emergency squad were finally called in. They cut the ends from an oil drum, lowered it around him as protection against further caving and then began to shore the well with lumber and rig supports under the roof in case digging weakened the pillar. A crowd gathered. Photographers fired flashbulbs down the hole; Dominick grinned up sheepishly...
Urging the lowering of farm price support to suit long-range conditions of supply and demand and the adjustment of our foreign trade balance to the needs of this country and the rest of the world, Slichter said that "increases in Imports of raw materials--oil, iron ore, copper, lumber--would be in the national interest...
...year-old career civil servant who joined the Government at 19 as a Census Bureau clerk, has been Pace's Assistant Director of the Budget. ¶ Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 51, quit to "get a rest," tend to his own business (mines, lumber, and a fine stable of race horses...
...semi-retirement since last June, Radio Funnyman Fred Allen explained his reluctance to join the stampede to television. "Pioneers never make any money," said Allen. "Take Daniel Boone. He went through all those forests and didn't make a dime. Then the lumber companies came in and cleaned...