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...will take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...
...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
...Rich Harvest. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated that the farmer's cash income from marketings for 1945 will reach a dazzling $20.4 billion v. 1939's $8 billion. But nobody expected the Farm Bloc to agree that food subsidies ($437 million the first half of this year) should...
Industry lacked raw materials and transport. But production was picking up. Coal mines were operating at a third of capacity. On the farms the harvest was good-a ray of hope for a nation that expects a hungry winter. Everywhere the people-farmers, workers, professionals, politicians-busily organized into cooperatives, unions, guilds, blocs, all woven into a Government-controlled...
Sifting the evidence in favor of the immediate settlement of the Italian problem, Salvemini pointed out that "the harvest this fall has been the worst in 40 years." "Unemployment is widespread, too," he continued, "and the reviving of industry must be accomplished soon." If the general situation in Italy is not corrected, he argued, then "we can expect trouble from Italy in the future...