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...some direct results, already visible, in our interpretation of history . . . The apologetic attitude of the years of the Great Depression is gone. We can henceforth be more confident and more energetic in asserting that our way of life, called decadent by our enemies, has proved itself historically to be freer, more flexible and more humane than any other...
...heard more frequently as the debate over trade gets hotter. It is the kind of talk which has a particular appeal to Congressmen who think, erroneously, that their districts have no stake in the export market. Already the economic nationalists have slowed the Administration's campaign to get freer trade. If the campaign is to succeed, the Administration must speak its answer to Lewis and his fellow economic nationalists clearly and often...
...Administration's drive for freer trade last week got another small, but helpful, shove forward. The United States Tariff Commission turned down a request by the Watch Attachment Manufacturers Association for higher import duties on foreign-made metal watch bracelets. The association argued that the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Extension Act should be invoked because increased imports of cheap foreign bracelets had seriously cut into the sales of U.S. producers. (Foreign bracelets made up 20% of sales last year v. 0.7% in 1947). The commission threw some statistics back at the U.S. bracelet makers. Total sales...
...orgasm, and if they did know they thought it was "not nice." Now. says Kinsey. who puts great stock in quantitative analysis: "To have frigidity so reduced in the course of four decades is ... a considerable achievement which may be credited, in part, to the franker attitudes and the freer discussion of sex which we have had in the U.S. during the past 20 years. and to the increasing scientific and clinical understanding...
DESPITE the Administration's drive for freer trade, the Department of Agriculture has decided that it must ask for a boost in tariffs on wool imports until it can find some way to pare down the 100 million-lb. domestic surplus the Government had to buy under its support program...