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...best customer, buying two-thirds of a billion dollars' worth of U.S. goods. Other big buyers: Brazil ($564 million), Cuba ($516 million), Venezuela ($500 million). Brazil led the suppliers, sending $808 million, mostly in coffee. Runners-up: Cuba ($438 million, mostly sugar), Mexico ($411 million, mostly lead and zinc), Venezuela ($396 million, mostly...
...Abolished price ceilings on another broad range of consumer items, e.g., poultry & eggs, soaps, paint, window glass, which are now selling generally below ceilings; and a first batch of industrial commodities, e.g., crude rubber, scrap metals, iron ore, lead, zinc, tin, petroleum & gas products, some of which are pressing ceilings and may well advance in prices...
...Canada's mines and mills rolled 4,800,000 tons of iron ore, 140,000 tons of nickel (90% of the free world's supply), 370,000 tons of zinc (an alltime record), 4,300,000 oz. of gold (worth $155 million), and an ever-increasing supply of uranium for the West's atomic-energy programs...
...drums to bring out the villagers, then solemnly read them a warning about Baumol. Jacques Cazenave, 52, director of the Daney Laboratory and father of two children, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. His explanation: One of his drug suppliers must have sent him arsenic acid anhydride instead of zinc oxide. But the next question on many lips was: how many babies in the eleven months since the death of François Lejeune had been hurt by the poisoned Baumol? Press estimates put the number of dead at 50, the seriously...
...another commodity has taken the down elevator with cotton. A year ago, hide prices were almost twice those today. Rubber, which at the top of its post-Korea bounce sold for 80? a pound, was down to 27?. Lead was 4? a pound cheaper than a year ago, and zinc 6? less. The BLS index of all commodities, which had jumped a maximum of 16% after Korea, had lost nearly five percent of the gain and, with the near-record 1952 farm crops coming in, many commodities were expected to fall still more. Since retail prices rise & fall with commodity...