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...Eugene Booze, Mound Bayou's richest citizen, owner of thousands of acres of cotton and timber land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...
Finns are mainly concerned with marketing timber and with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...
...great timber, pulp, ore and shipping industries Swedish capital, while not operating under laissez-faire conditions, is given a fairly free swing to charge what the traffic-mostly foreign-will bear. Last year Swedish exporters of forest products and iron and steel did a $300,230,880 business, keeping the foreign trade balance weighted toward Sweden...
...press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease...
...were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure of four Danish ships, three carrying butter, eggs and bacon to Britain, one timber to The Netherlands. These seizures, which would never be paid for in real money, were gross violations of Germany's reiterated promise to let Denmark trade freely with all belligerents...