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   From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:ddfr-9E5A64.11150317082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > In article ,   
   > valtsu  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > 2. The question that arises for me is why what you describe made more   
   > sense for the Finns than simply selling their products through whatever   
   > the usual channels were, and using the money to buy airplanes. Why set   
   > up a special (I'm guessing Finnish) agency to sell goods in order to buy   
   > airplanes?   
   >   
   There were no "usual channels". Simply so. Isn't this obvious. Should the   
   Finns have sold pulp worth a few hundred milliard dollars via "usual   
   channels"? All the Americans had drowned in the smelly stuff.   
      
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