Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in lowering them. Within the past few months, however, a number of government commissions have acted to dispel Congressional fears about lowered tariffs. Both the President and leading economists are now pleading for an even more liberal trade policy than the one outlined in the Randall Report. Favoring freer trade are not only the traditional arguments such as lower prices for home consumers, but a present need directly connected to the security of the United States...
...sagged last year. But business snapped back, and French business leaders are hopeful that further recovery can come about as a result of the government's four-way prescription: 1) tax reductions (made possible, in part, by stepped-up U.S. aid in the Indo-China war); 2) a freer money policy; 3) relaxed rent controls and a special payroll tax to help building; 4) lifting of quota restrictions on a number of imports...
...program will be lost unless President Eisenhower goes to the people with a ringing explanation of the importance of freer trade to U.S. foreign policy...
...Capitol Hill, congressional leaders expected Chairman Daniel Reed of the House Ways & Means Committee, a dissenter on the Randall Commission Report, to bury freer trade legislation with either silence or a mass of endless testimony at public hearings...
...carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted in keeping with the Eisenhower Administration's policy of freer trade. The Indians protest that the imported beadwork is phony. But the Navaho craftsmen themselves work with factory-made beads imported from Italy and Czechoslovakia...