Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more impressed by the fact that the Randall Commission's tariff-slicing recommendations have not been enacted, that the tariff was raised on Swiss watches, and that the U.S. Tariff Commission has just started hearings on the plea of U.S. bicycle makers for a higher tariff and an import quota on foreign-made bicycles. (British bicycle sales in the U.S. have increased from...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...
...scripts, do no acting. Production will start when Hemingway's novel writing permits and "Mau Mau activity ... is at a minimum." import dealing with sexual abnormality, approved for weekday exhibition, was turned down by Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety Otis M. Whitney and Mayor John Foley as "inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban on Sunday...
...EXPORTERS will get help from the Government to lure new accounts. The Export-Import Bank set up a credit plan so that exporters can give foreign customers up to five years to pay for agricultural and industrial capital goods...