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...looking wistfully out to sea. 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...
...housewife. Oranges, for example, were still retailing last week for as much as 60? for 5 Ibs., or 18 times the price on the tree. And though meat prices were moving down in the stockyards (lamb dropped nearly $2 a hundredweight from a month ago), they were still sky-high at the retail counter. Oddest situation of all was in potatoes, which two years ago were rotting on the ground for lack of buyers. Last week there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last year. OPS officials found that housewives were forced...
...rate of 4,000,000 tons a month. In one way, it does more harm than good: to fill its coal scuttles with costly U.S. coal, Europe is emptying its bank vaults of precious U.S. dollars which could be more profitably invested in new mining machinery. Moreover, sky-high U.S. coal prices have sent all other prices soaring...
With meat prices sky-high and chicken down 23% in the past three years, Jesse Jewell and other big chicken raisers are sitting pretty. Since the nation has increased its appetite for chicken from 100 million to 750 million birds a year, chicken men see no reason why the cackle boom should not be permanent...
...curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful variations. Pal Kelemen, Hungarian-born art historian, has spent nearly three years tracing baroque's high-spirited course through Latin America. In a handsome new book with a sky-high price, Baroque and Rococo in Latin America (Macmillan; $16.50), he gives a rich account in words and pictures of what...