Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landon: Cattle prices have fallen because of the Canadian agreement...
Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas...
...three specific Landon charges against the reciprocal trade agreements, Secretary Hull gave three specific answers : Landon: After the Canadian trade agreement the price of cheddar cheese fell from 17? to 12?½. Hull: The decline was seasonable. Cheddar cheese is now selling at 17½?, 25% above a year ago, higher than at any time since Depression...
...During the first seven months of the Canadian agreement exports of hams and shoulders to Canada increased 169%; and of other pork, pickled or salted, 329% as compared with the same period of 1935, while lard exports to Canada increased...
Uninformed investors looking for gold stocks might pass over Kaw Crow, Grull Wihksne, McLeod Cockshutt, Cotton Belt, Porcupine Crown, Buffalo Ankerite, Canadian Malartic, Ymir Yankee Girl. But 'they could hardly resist the most glittering name of all-Yukon Gold. From an investment manual they would be shockingly undeceived. Yukon Gold does nothing but mine tin in the Federated Malay States...