Word: market
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...almost all Finns are workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over 1935's - not considering stratospheric black market prices; a kilo of butter (28 marks in 1939) now brings 600 to 1,000 marks...
Best anti-lamprey measure would be to drum up commercial demand. Lampreys were once a popular delicacy: Henry I of England is reputed to have died from a surfeit of them. Dr. Van Oosten is checking a rumor that Italians in Bessemer, Pa. are lamprey enthusiasts. If a market can be found, enterprising Great Lakes fishermen will gladly exterminate the lampreys free of charge...
...them. In short, trade must be developed. Before the war, in a typical year like 1938, Japan imported U.S. goods worth $260,667,000, sold the U.S. $123,836,000. How much of the prewar imports U.S. business could buy, or would want to, nobody knew. The market for silk was drastically reduced (TIME, May 26). For some time, at least, it looked as if trade in other items -fish, tea, cotton piece-goods, agar-agar, pottery, toys-would be small...
Boston, which President Helen M. Horion of Wellesley College dolorously referred to as the marriage market of the East, does, however, suffer a recession in volume turnover during the summer months. This, of course, is due to the departure of the collegiate gentler...
Died. William A. Morgan, 75, Buffalo financier (no kin of the late J.P.), who virtually cornered the world copper market during World War I; after long illness; in Buffalo...