Economic News No. 48

News excerpts from the Economic News issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Vegetable Arrivals Gradually Getting Better, Though Not so Good as Fish; 59 Firms Now Members of Woolen Industry Assn.; Million Kan of Tunny Coming From Misaki for New Year Dinners; Delivery System for Vegetables to be Established Beginning January; Yamagata Prefecture Completes Rice Delivery, Second on List; Dried Persimmon Brought from Gifu to Tokyo on Back, Porters Make ¥10,000 a Month; ¥600 Million Spent at Nakayama Races, Statistics Given on 'Monaco' of Kanto Area; ¥20 Million Ship Offered Gratis, But Must be Salvaged Off Shizuoka; Costs of Living, Prices, Wages Compared, Sept. '47 and Jan. '47, Also with 1935-36; Fukui Electric Workers Go on Strike and Consumers Supplied with Plenty of Light; Farm and Marine Products Earn Dollar Exchange; Distribution of Staple Cereals Proceeding Smoothly on the Whole