Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your fascinating Oct. 28 article, I suggest we import Erhard, Vocke and Schaffer and teach our administrators how to do things...
...likely to anger foreign natipns -and raise cries that the U.S. preaches but does not practice free trade-is the fact that domestic sales, as the President himself noted, "have increased in recent years, reaching an alltime high last year." But despite this, domestic producers have campaigned for strict import curbs ever since 1949, complaining of low wages abroad and their own high costs. However, imports' total share of the market in 1956 was only 29%, and the "serious injury" the U.S. companies complained about amounted to barely an 8% increase in five years...
Inside, Princess Aisha sprawled on a yellow satin divan and recalled the Tangier speech. "I was not nervous," she said. "I was simply unknowing. I didn't realize the import of what I was saying. His Majesty had asked me to speak. It was only after I spoke that I realized, I who lived so freely, what things were really like in Morocco, and what would happen because I had spoken...
...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...second day as French Premier, Felix Gaillard continues to face some disturbing problems. France has been without a government for thirty-six days, during which time pithead coal prices have risen 6.5 per cent, the import tax has risen 20 per cent, and the franc's value has fallen 20 per cent. To combat the falling franc and the rising Algerian, fresh and dynamic leadership is needed. If the following proposals to M. Gaillard are not dynamic, they are, at least, original...