Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoping to win the support of Southern textile makers for his tariff-melting Trade Expansion bill. President Kennedy last winter urged the Tariff Commission to put an extra tax of 8½?-a Ib. on imported cotton textiles (which are already saddled with a 14?-a-lb. tariff). But last week the Tariff Commission turned Kennedy down. By a vote of 3 to 2. the commission decided that it would be a bit absurd to establish an import tax to offset an export subsidy which had been established to offset a price support...
Selling Points. To ease apprehensions that foreign customers will renege on bills, the Export-Import Bank and 71 insurance companies have formed the Foreign Credit Insurance Association to sell insurance against most risks at low rates. Pan American World Airways, which wants to step up its air-cargo shipments, is one of several international firms ready to put businesses in touch with established sales agents abroad. The Commerce Department supplies inquirers with a long list of potential foreign buyers, counsel on how to sell them and how to snip international red tape, and news that there are likely foreign markets...
...arrange the details of the deal, the three little pigs import a big bad wolf-a famous funny-moneyman known as Le Dab (Jean Gabin). They offer the aged but by no means senile counterfeiter a quarter share in the enterprise. "Two million dollars. Split it four ways and what have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork...
...Ingmar Bergman will have to wait for The Virgin Spring if it's the artistic manipulation of a new and different situation they're after. For Dreams sheds little light on the already thoroughly essayed subject of mis-matched lovers. Marred by disturbing patches of unmitigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...
...Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring partner five times, wryly suggested that Trainer Reddish import zombies from darkest Africa. "Where else are you going to find training partners? He's the kind that knocks you on the chin and breaks your ankle. He'll knock out Patterson in five rounds...