Word: eca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoying a pastoral scenic view would ever suspect that those statuesque cows could cause so much trouble. But thanks to them and their herders, this country's honesty is in question, our ECA program retarded, and American agriculture in danger...
...Hull's Reciprocal Trade Agreements lowered those walls somewhat, and since then substantial cuts have been made. The latest effort along this line was U.S. sponsorship of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a web of multilateral agreements set up in 1948 by which the signatories, including all ECA nations, guaranteed to lower restrictions as far as they could...
...dairy interests' victory has also left its mark on the ECA. A good example is Belgium, where cheese exports to America were a main factor in the fight for self-sufficiency. The Belgian ECA program received a serious setback when the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Anderson-Thye amendment, had to cut cheese imports forty percent last August...
This evidently does not interest the dairy men, nor does the ECA program nor even their own country's prestige and honesty; they, as well as the congressmen who cooperated with them, seem to be more interested in protecting their own profits. Congress would do well to make a little less noise about municipal and state-wide protection rackets and do something about its own version...
...Sample information: a sudden Government decision last March to buy 870,000 tons of rye.) Cullum named some of the combine's members: the Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...