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...nagging national problem. Bumper crops in 1951-53 crammed Canadian grain elevators with unsold wheat. The poor 1954 crop will help reduce the huge surplus. And, since the same nasty weather that plagued Canada all summer also prevailed in Western Europe, prospects are that Canada will be able to boost its wheat exports to Europe this year...
LUMBER STRIKE, which started 2½ months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
...AMERICAN week was staged (without government sanction) in Switzerland by 3,000 watchmakers as a protest against the U.S. boost in watch tariffs. Some shopkeepers refused to sell American cigarettes, nylons or Coca-Cola...
TITANIUM production should soon roll ahead. To boost output and lower prices (now $15 a lb.), the Eisenhower Administration authorized five year tax write-offs (v. the usual 25 years) for new plants that turn out finished titanium...
...main reasons for last winter's price boost, according to FTC, was the inaccurate forecast for Brazil's 1954-5 5 crop. A year ago, a biting frost hit Brazil's second biggest producing area in Parana, damaging nearly 250 million trees. With forecasts of a meager 13 million-bag crop, some 4,000,000 bags less than expected, a wild price spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels...