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Scissors & Shears. A dozen U.S. industries have complained of imports reaching the "peril point" (at which they are theoretically injured or threatened), and have applied for relief through higher tariffs. Two weeks ago, the Tariff Commission sent its recommendations to the White House on two such cases-one involving fish fillets, the other scissors and shears. Recommendations on the other ten cases are due soon...
...such cases the President faces a peril point of his own. He must decide between the interests of industries that seek protection and the nation's overriding interest in freer trade. In this election year some voters are likely to blame local unemployment on foreign imports...
Political Peril. The President's decision on one current tariff case-the $58 million annual trade in Swiss watches and movements-will directly affect one Republican Senator up for reelection, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who has several watchmaking companies in his state. The Swiss make17-jewel movements for around $4, less than half the U.S. production costs, and outsell American makers nearly 4 to 1 (8,600,000 to 2,300,000 annually...
Nobody doubted it: Harvard needed a new bridge. The Boston Post suggested in 1911 that "somebody with a good, plump bank account might well devote some of its surplus age to the building of a safe and artistic Harvard bridge. That ramshackle old contraption is a peril and disgrace to the two cities that appear to be waiting for it to fall into the Charles, which it will probably do some fine day. Where is the millionaire who will immortalize himself and serve posterity by building a new bridge...
Acknowledgement of the common peril was more important to Dulles than the details of what would be done about it. The problem was to find the words that others might sign. The formula finally drawn was somewhat less specific than Dulles would have liked, but it was as much as Eden felt he could defend before British opinion...