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Agricultural scientists try hard to find ways to check insect pests by tricks of cultivation. They import the ancient enemies of invading foreign insects and foster the resident enemies of native pests. They are developing bacterial diseases to spread pestilence among insect populations. Because these tactics alone are seldom enough to protect the tender plants of modern, high-yield farms, the use of insecticides is economically necessary. Tests run by the Department of Agriculture show that failure to use pesticides would cost a major part of many crops; a 20-year study proved that cotton yields would...
Though the red tape is often cumbersome and the sight-unseen aspect of the transaction frequently chancy, many agencies have been developed just to import domestics from abroad. The largest, Manhattan's Domestic Service. Inc., began importing some 1.200 domestics a year in 1950. but in the last few years has become more selective and cut back to about 700 a year. Though the agency could get all the European girls it wanted, it searched out more experienced domestics who would be more likely to stay beyond the usual one-year contract. The family pays the girl...
Endless Staple. Some families prefer to do their own prospecting in Europe and import a cook or a maid without a written contract. This can lead to some poignant frustrations when the importee discovers what a seller's market domestic service is in the U.S. Cook stealing has long been a popular sport (even the Kennedys have tried it), but it has reached fantastic heights. Anna, a cook who came from Germany to Beverly Hills-where cook stealing is as popular as wife stealing-started at $250 a month. Within three weeks she had switched to another household...
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...