Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government must provide incentives for capital by such changes as a reduction in the corporate tax rate on foreign earnings. In calling for tariff reductions, Randall points out how high tariffs can transfer burdens from one part of the economy to another. When the U.S. banned imports of Danish bleu cheese, for example, the Danes banned U.S. coal (see below), thus transferred Wisconsin's problem to West Virginia...
...restrictions on dairy products from Denmark and other countries. "We feel,"said Denmark's Gunnar Seidenfaden, "that a leading trading nation like the U.S. has special responsibilities to cooperate in the general effort." With the backing of Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and Canada, GATT passed a Danish resolution affirming the right of other nations to take retaliatory action against the U.S. so long as American import restrictions remain in effect...
Dancers & Wrestlers. The Iron Curtain has also been raised a perceptible inch, and foreign diplomats can move deeper into the countryside. Newsmen are still largely unwelcome, but other delegations are streaming in by the hundreds. They include Greek dancers, Swiss doctors, Italian film makers, British agronomists, Indian economists, Danish exporters, Israeli women, Egyptian wrestlers. Delegations from India, Ceylon, Indonesia and Burma (headed by the Agriculture Minister himself) wandered admiringly through Moscow's huge agricultural exhibition...
...Today, the country has nearly 1,500 orienteering clubs with 189,000 members. All schoolchildren over twelve spend two full days a month practicing the allied arts of map reading, woodsmanship and cross-country running until they become fully oriented. Evangelical Swedes have taught the sport to their Norwegian, Danish and Finnish neighbors, are working hard to spread it to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. They have little hope for the "car-crazy Americans...
...more space and equipment. There had been no plan to expand in Belgium, but Curtice, in typical fashion, agreed to appropriate the money. The Swiss assembly plant, he learned, needed $3,500,000. Go right ahead, said Curtice, the money will come through. G.M.'s Swedish, French and Danish subsidiaries asked for money, and Curtice promised to work...