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Other facts & figures showed the difficulties under which the nations labored, trying to keep their populations alive. From a prewar base period, when the world fared moderately well, China's farm draft power (horses, tractors, etc.) had dropped 20%; Italy's, 26%; Austria's, 40%; Yugoslavia's, 54%; Poland's, 64%; Russia's, 65%. Food distribution was slowed by the war wreckage of transportation systems, resulting in spoilage...
Still Some Ski Boots. It will take at least a year to work out tariff duties on goods moving among the three countries, which in the long run means deciding what industries shall be allowed to survive in which country. Example: although prewar Belgian glass works could easily produce enough for the needs of both countries (90% of their production was exported), Holland, whose shattered windows need glass urgently, has not waited for revival of the Belgian industry, has started her own glass production...
...support program, farmers have maintained production at about one-third greater than the prewar level. "This has of course done more," Anderson claimed, "to hold food prices down and assure relatively plentiful food supplies in this country than anything else. . . . Current price support activities are minor and are exerting almost no effect on food prices...
Wise old Yard squirrels mindful of the crazy antics of prewar initiatees went right on sunning themselves yesterday noon when four Puritans, one Indian and a mannequin trooped through their precincts trumpeting sour renditions of College songs...
...from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best...