Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobilization, the Army Corps of Engineers has accepted a bid of $1,757,000 from a Philadelphia company and has rejected an English Electric Company bid that was $300,000 lower. In doing this, it was allegedly acting under the "Buy America Act," which provides for the rejection of foreign contracts in cases of national security...
...recent years the Act has become a protective devise for avoiding the liberal trade policies so hotly championed by the Administration. The Act provides that to require acceptance a foreign bid must be at least six per cent lower than a domestic one, and to this is added another six per cent in the case of unemployed areas. The English bid, however, even after import duty, was 19 per cent lower...
...event, there is much resentment abroad that foreign bids are first invited, and that when successful they are then rejected on grounds which should have precluded their invitation. Secretary Dulles, hard pressed, conceded this "imperfection," but found the decision satisfying. His remark failed to comfort the British government, which, often at its own political expense, has supported the American policies of freer trade and economic interdependence. It has managed to stabilize the pound, increase convertability, maintain debt payments, and encourage sales efforts in the dollar area-all objectives which America has been encouraging. Now, with elections approaching, it appears that...
...University Health Service has asked that students who plan foreign travel this summer to visit 15 Holyoke St. as soon as possible for information about shots. Inoculations will be given daily from 9 to 11 a.m., and must be received at least two months before departure...
...Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, and the United States are the principal countries represented, but I am told that there is at least one soldier from every country in Latin America. I was surprised to find several Americans among the barbudos, since they risked losing their citizenship by fighting for a foreign country...