Word: importations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day at a press conference, the young refugee from neutrality told his story. Born in Poland, he had learned English at the University of Lodz, had never before been out of Poland. When had he first hoped to escape? "The day they came to the import-export government agency in Lodz where I worked and offered me the inspection team...
...everything in the $30 million-a-year French perfume industry smelled sweet to Wertheimer. Italian perfume makers were challenging French supremacy in the U.S. market, and, as always, the Paris market was flooded with cheap, tourist-bait concoctions mixed in some 1,200 Parisian "cellars." Tariff barriers and import restrictions have virtually shut off the big Latin American markets. Things were even worse in the quiet town of Grasse, near the Mediterranean, whose 18 distilling plants supply the French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine...
...start new suits. He has already started some. In July he began a new prosecution against Aluminum Co. of America, whose onetime monopoly had been declared ended after one of the most protracted suits on record (TIME, June 12, 1950). The complaint charged that Alcoa's contract to import 600,000 tons of Canadian aluminum from its divorced ex-subsidiary, Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, was an attempt to bring the two together in a new monopoly. When gasoline and fuel oil prices rose two months ago, Barnes sent FBI agents around to check into possible price-fixing. Last week...
...group, it appeared, had used a Düsseldorf import-export firm to organize a neo-Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...
...Administration's drive for freer trade last week got another small, but helpful, shove forward. The United States Tariff Commission turned down a request by the Watch Attachment Manufacturers Association for higher import duties on foreign-made metal watch bracelets. The association argued that the "escape clause" of the Trade Agreements Extension Act should be invoked because increased imports of cheap foreign bracelets had seriously cut into the sales of U.S. producers. (Foreign bracelets made up 20% of sales last year v. 0.7% in 1947). The commission threw some statistics back at the U.S. bracelet makers. Total sales...