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RUSSIAN-JAPANESE TRADE has flopped so far. Though Russia and Japan signed an $80 million trade agreement last summer, year-long negotiations have produced only $9,000,000 worth of firm contracts, mostly for Russian coal, lumber, manganese and chrome, in exchange for Japanese wire rope, tugboats and fishing vessels. Reasons for the failure: high Red prices (20% higher than international levels), uncertain delivery and complex payment systems...
...Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
Burst of Prosperity. The uranium rush burst two years ago upon the declining old lumber town of Blind River, Ont. (pop. 2,500) with the news that Toronto Promoter Joseph Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) had quietly staked 1,400 claims covering 56,000 acres of choice mining prospects. On the map, Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with...
Tree Farming (Jan. 17), a graphic report on timber conservation that won cheers from forest rangers and lumber tycoons alike...
Retaliating Moroccans erupted from the native quarters, set fire to a hospital and lumber yard, burned one European alive in his car, and with cement blocks smashed in the head of a 76-year-old Frenchman, manager of the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...