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...tooth cavities of monkeys. They succeeded in producing paralysis in one monkey and nerve damage in several others. From two areas in last year's polio epidemic they got additional evidence: 70% of the victims in three North Carolina treatment centers had such bad cavities that pulp was exposed, while only 27% of well children in the same districts had serious cavities; in Baltimore 65% of polio patients had exposed pulp, compared with only 24% of well children...
...Swedes explained to OPA that pulp which sold at $40 a ton delivered to a U.S. port in 1939 should now be priced at $80 because production and shipping costs have gone up. U.S. ceiling price for a like grade of pulp...
When Swedish pulp mills proposed a transatlantic freight rate of $8 a ton (v. $4 prewar), the War Shipping Administration suggested a rate...
Swedes darkly suspected that U.S. shipping interests were attempting to cash in on the world's demand for Swedish pulp...
Eventually the Swedes may shave their price to within OPA's price limits, and so restore their prewar export market for 1,000,000 tons of pulp a year to the U.S. But it was reported that the first three shiploads of pulp to sail through the Baltic this week were not bound for the U.S.; they were headed for Britain, Portugal and Argentina. These countries are more aware than OPA that prices for pulp and other commodities in the world markets cannot always be regimented to fit domestic price controls. Last week, in fact, ' the Swedes were...