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...most promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents...
...Purcell, Chairman of the Congress, said in answer that the Council of the Congress had already decided to ask the Amsterdam Internationale to issue invitations to call such a conference at which Russians could be present. This was taken to mean that Brit ish trades unionism would cooperate with Russians upon an equal basis but would not permit the latter to dominate or dictate...
...Foreign nations were being consulted in regard to finances and the other matters of policy: Ibid.-(4) Foreign method and ways were being introduced: McCoan, p. 278.- (x) Courts were established in 1876 by Nubar Pasha, which still remain the chief judicial system in Egypt: Quarterly Review, Encyclo. Brit.- (c) The neutrality of the Suez Canal does not require...
...Contemp. Rev., XLVIII, (Dec. 1853) 864-875; Annals of Amer. Acad., II, no 3, (Nov. 1891); I, (July 1890) 1-25; W. Wilson in Int. Rev. VII, (Aug. 1879) 146-163; Nat. Rev. XIX, (Nov. 1864) 1-27; Labor I, 388 394; Ency Brit...
...National regulations would not check fraudulent elections in the South: Nation, vol. 51 p. 104. - (a) The law could not be enforced so as to prevent the intimidation of the negroes. - (b) Experience in the past has shown this: Alex. Johnston in Encyc. Brit...