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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TARIFF INCREASES on lead and zinc, recommended by the Tariff Commission, were rejected by President Eisenhower, who thereby spiked fears that his watch-tariff boost (TIME, Aug. 9) indicated a protectionist trend. To bolster U.S. mining, Ike announced a sharply increased stockpiling program for lead and zinc...
BUSINESS CENSUS will be taken early next year. With an unexpected $8,430,000 appropriation from Congress (TIME, Aug. 9), U.S. Bureau of the Census will poll 3,000,000 business firms to update government statistics on U.S. sales, manufacturing and mining...
...find the answers, President Eisenhower asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the entire industry both at home and abroad. FTC's conclusion: the trouble is the way coffee is marketed all along the line, from plantation to pot (TIME, Aug. 9). The No. 1 offender, said FTC in its 1,000-page report, was Brazil, the world's biggest coffee producer and biggest U.S. supplier, with exports last year of 8,970,439 bags (43% of the U.S. total) worth $628 million. In effect, FTC charged Brazil's coffee industry with manipulating the market through misleading...
...throwing thousands of other American employees out of work. Main issue: American's nonstop coast-to-coast nights, which kept some air crews in the air more than eight hours a day-despite the fact that the schedule had been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.). By last week the pilots seemed to be looking for a way out, and federal mediators gave them one. According to the proposal, accepted by both sides, American would...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME, Aug...