Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...
Instead of the present 45% ad valorem ("according to value") duty on foreign cars, the new French tariff is a tariff by weight. Foreign cars are divided into five classes, taxed as follows...
These two cars are in a vastly different Price class but in nearly the same weight class. Under the present French tariff, ad valorem ("according to value"), a high priced Packard pays a high tariff of $1,182 per car, and a medium priced Buick pays a medium tariff...
...Ministry of Commerce announced suddenly that the present ad valorem duty on imported cars would be collected not on the basis of the price in the foreign country of manufacture (as has been standard practice) but on the basis of the price in France...
...typical cases of seduction technique; each is cast in dialog form. The titles suggest the types: Feel My Muscle, You're Not the Domestic Type, An Ugly Old Thing Like Me, What Do You Think Your Husband's Doing?, Music Gets Me. Author Hahn calls Seductio ad Absurdum a beginner's handbook, announces a course for advanced students in preparation: The Seducers Veni Mecum...