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...Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping $135 million (31 billion Finnmark) trade surplus...
...power saws, sanders, drills, spray guns, and all power tools soaring. But mainly, the "build-it-yourself" boom is born of economic necessity. Not only has the oldtime handyman all but disappeared, but hired home builders or repairers are sometimes shoddy workmen, and always high-priced. Said a Chicago lumber dealer: "It's a simple economic fact that a $75-a-week bookkeeper can't buy the services of a $150 carpenter...
...tiles. Sales of all such asphalt tiles have risen in a decade from about 90 million sq. ft. to an estimated 550 million, of which one-third is now bought directly by the home owner. Do-it-yourself has brought similar gains, and market shifts, to other industries. Retail lumber sales have risen from $1.2 billion to $4.3 billion, with much of the increase due to purchases by home workers. Since 1946, the amount of plywood sold to non-professional builders has almost doubled (in 1951 it was 10% of total output); manufacturers are encouraging such trade by making...
...Perkins is busying herself around her lumber yard when Gladys Pendleton calls to say that her mother Matilda fell, or was pushed, while arguing about a divorce with her husband, pompous Bank President Augustus Pendleton. Augustus goes off to spend the evening with his gentle lady friend, Widow Amy McKenzie, the woman Matilda wants to name in the divorce suit. The teaser: Will gentle Amy marry pompous Augustus...
...Minters were Melvin Minter, a Negro lumber worker from Ansley, La., his wife and ten children (aged 2 to 17), heading for Yakima, Wash., where Minter had a new job waiting. One morning last month, as they approached Fruita in their pickup truck on Highway 6, a car nosed out of a side road. Braking to avoid a collision, the Minter truck skidded and overturned. Margaret, 14, was killed. Mrs. Minter was seriously injured. The other children were cut and bruised...