Word: babassu
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...bill to collect and publish monthly statistics on cottonseed, peanuts, copra, sesame seed, babassu nuts...
Hull: There was never any tariff on babassu nuts and oils even under the Hawley-Smoot tariff...
Landon: The Brazilian trade agreement permitted "a new jungle product," babassu nuts and oils (TIME, Sept. 14) to enter the U. S. duty free to compete with...
Reason for the farmer's plight is not, as TIME seems to imply, failure to put a duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city...
...when dairymen's lobbyists got a 3? a Ib. tax on coconut oil and other imported oils suitable for oleomargarine, they completely overlooked babassu. What was worse, the State Department in February 1935 concluded a trade agreement with Brazil promising to impose no tariffs on the babassu nut or its oil for three years starting...