Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years U. S. motor manufacturers have urged lowering of the U. S. tariff on cars, with the idea that only after this was done could they win reciprocal tariff cuts abroad and break heavily into European markets. Today, with the U. S. tariff on imported cars down to a trifling 10%, they are being bought for fun and swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that...
...engine car (see cut p. 33) is delivered in Manhattan for $2,175. Also on sale last week was the large Mercédès with supercharger and promised speed of 110 m.p.h., at $14,000. No French, Italian, Czechoslovak or Japanese car was offered last week, though European Motors Inc. specializes in importing on order and servicing anything, however exotic.* A new firm of interest to swanksters was J. S. Inskip, Inc., successors to defunct Rolls-Royce of America Inc. in importing the English article. On their floor was one of the extremely few Phantom III models...
...eats only eucalyptus leaves and of these only twelve varieties. A koala fed leaves from any other of Australia's some 400 varieties of eucalyptus tree will die. The koala drinks nothing, tries to chew if given liquid. A few koalas have been imported by U. S. and European zoos. They promptly died...
...thin out the Cherokee National Forest's population of 400-odd European boars and give U. S. hunters some unique sport, Tennessee's State Fish & Game Commission announced a hunt to begin Nov. 19, last ten days. Applications, of which 160 had been received by this week, may be sent to the State Fish & Game Commission at Nashville until the day of the hunt. The first 100 applicants to send in a special $5 fee (for cost of attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly...
...California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...