Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached...
Behind a glass door near the entrance to every apartment house in Paris sits a well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a...
Last week, in the midst of all the hubbub, Dr. Peter Lindstrom landed at Rome's Ciampino airport. He met his wife and Rossellini in Messina's shabby-best Hotel Reale, and the three talked far into the night. Next day, "for the protection of my family," Ingrid...
Black-Market Babies. The Soviet answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some...
A large-scale price support plan involves the problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he...