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...special study mission, Congressmen Hays and Coffin interviewed some 125 leading Canadians in Montreal and Ottawa, heard familiar complaints about U.S. tariffs, oil import quotas, and price-cutting in sales of surplus wheat. They also found a nagging worry that U.S. corporations are gaining too much control over Canadian resources...
...IMPORT LID will be hammered down tighter on West Coast. Pressure is mounting in Washington for cut in quotas because imports to area have fallen 30% to 35% below ceiling of 220,100 bbl. per day owing to recession in demand. At very least, individual quotas of major companies will be slashed to make way for new importers, who have applied to bring...
When informed of this belief, Mr. Zeehandler sold some hippos, some rhinos, and some long necked giraffes and obtained Hermione Esmerelda. He proceeded to contact John Foster Dulles, who declared that Hermione Esmerelda could not come to the United States. Such an import, said he, would violate an embargo on trade with Communist China...
...there too much chrome? Or not enough? Are the fins too fabulous? Or just fishy? Everyone debates the case of the small car v. the big car, argues the merits of the U.S. car v. the invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a new 1958, the sidewalk humorists are solemnly asking, "Where do you put in the nickel to make it light up and play?" To Detroit, all this is as shocking as if a Saint Bernard had bitten a lost missionary. "This," said Ford Stylist George W. Walker sadly, "is 'Hate-Autos...
...President Eisenhower will spend less time improving Mr. Nixon's public relations with statements about "courage, patience, and calmness" and more time improving this nation's public relations in South America. This will not be done with debates, speeches, and slogans, but with an effective foreign aid program and import tariffs that do not cripple our would-be allies in South America...