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Argentine law exempts newsprint from import duties when it is used for "cultural" purposes. Last week the Perón government ruled that newsprint used for advertising is subject to the tariff. From the Ministry of Finance to the chief opposition papers went telegrams demanding payment of back duties. For La Prensa, ordered to come across in 72 hours, the ruling meant that its recent "expropriation" by the government was actually confiscation; the $2,300,000 assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Naci...
...Import needed alloy minerals duty free...
...experience of over 30 years in the motion-picture industry," writes Mayer, "the American people have had plenty of opportunities to support [good] pictures and almost invariably have failed to do so. Although I have helped to import many of the finest pictures ever brought into this country, I was able to ... only because I was simultaneously operating [Manhattan's] Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about...
...executive order, he turned over a batch of 20 functions to the Secretary of the Interior. Among them was the duty of taxing people in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, prescribe or administer marijuana for medical purposes. He also gave up the duty of removing and appointing the principal chieftains of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, and of approving resolutions of their tribal councils...
After failing to live up to its enthusiastic advance notices during three weeks in Manhattan, God Needs Men (TIME, April 16), a choice French import, was appearing last week in other U.S. cities under a new title calculated to prop up its sagging box-office appeal. The new title: Isle of Sinners...