Word: import
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there too much chrome? Or not enough? Are the fins too fabulous? Or just fishy? Everyone debates the case of the small car v. the big car, argues the merits of the U.S. car v. the invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a new 1958, the sidewalk humorists are solemnly asking, "Where do you put in the nickel to make it light up and play?" To Detroit, all this is as shocking as if a Saint Bernard had bitten a lost missionary. "This," said Ford Stylist George W. Walker sadly, "is 'Hate-Autos...
...President Eisenhower will spend less time improving Mr. Nixon's public relations with statements about "courage, patience, and calmness" and more time improving this nation's public relations in South America. This will not be done with debates, speeches, and slogans, but with an effective foreign aid program and import tariffs that do not cripple our would-be allies in South America...
...borrowers? Last year, speaking at the International Industrial Development Conference in San Francisco. German Banker Hermann Abs issued a ringing call for economic order through law. Such order, said Abs, can be achieved only through "an international convention by which all contracting parties, both typical capital-export and capital-import countries, undertake to treat foreign capital and other foreign interests fairly and without discrimination...
...that idea, the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief, Roy Richard Rubottom Jr., says "unwieldy and unworkable." Nor did Dulles mention specific solutions, but Washington heard talk of such stabilizing devices as export and import quotas, buffer stocks, revolving funds to buy up surplus commodities, production controls. More ideas seem likely to be a major result of Vice President Nixon's trip through South America, scheduled to start next week...
...help hard-pressed U.S. copper producers, suffering from a copper glut that has depressed prices to 25? per lb., the Government last week threw its weight behind a Senate bill that would restore copper import taxes which have been suspended (for all but nine months) since 1947. The Government's endorsement, made by Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, was a victory for Western miners and protectionists, who have stepped up attacks on the suspension since copper began to slide badly last year. If the bill goes through-and Administration endorsement makes it almost a certainty -all copper imports...