Word: added
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authorize the President to slash existing tariffs to not more than 50% ad valorem at his discretion...
...Tariff Wall. Yearly, the U.S. imports about $11 billion worth of goods: of these, half enter duty-free, and two-fifths pay duties of less than 30%. Yet cheap sun glasses pay 335.7% ad valorem, pocket knives with folding blades 89.5%, concentrated lemon juice...
...their independence and became Indonesia, the two nations agreed to negotiate the future status of West New Guinea. But Indonesia this year broke all its ties with the old mother country, and the Dutch considered the agreement no longer binding. Immediately, Indonesia submitted to the U.N. its claim to ad minister West New Guinea all by itself. Indonesia's case was woefully weak: it has never had control of the land; its people are of different stock and have shown no desire to join Indonesia. Besides, the Indonesian government is unable to control its own rebellion-plagued 80 millions...
Explaining the expected election standards, Dunn said Pete Edelman's Yardling ad "for crudity, lewdity, stewdity" was "as low on the ladder as we will let go by, the nadir." He insisted that material has "get to be clean enough not to offend women and parents...
...strengthen the financial foundation of the "Yardling," candidates were permitted to buy ad space which appeared before the official opening of the campaign period. As mimeographed material, the "Yardling" would ordinarily have been closed to campaigners...