Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greying, affable Ed Jones is the biggest boss and at the same time the golden goose of Chicago's $25 million-a-year policy syndicate. As such, his well-being is the concern of thousands. His syndicate employs some 5,000 Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on...
"New York is a city for the farsighted. ... My glance encountered only space. . . . Our cities in Europe are built as a protection against space. . . . But space traverses New York, animates it, stretches it. . . . The city very closely resembles the great Andalusian plains: it is monotonous if you pass through on...
One last hot wrangle had been over who the gods should be-civilian or military. That debate dissolved when the services said they only wanted the right to sit in. Another debate was over security measures, which were at first so drastic that some Senators believed they abridged constitutional rights...
British experts believe that the U.S. will have the greatest depression ever within five years; just as many U.S. experts believe that Britain will never really recover. Russia is diverting the flow of Balkan trade from its normal markets to Moscow. Australia has a brand-new war-born industry that...
His own industry is Exhibit A. The steel office desk he makes sells at $40 more than the competing U.S. import. Without protection, he will have to lower prices, maybe lose money. Does an industry like his contribute enough to Mexican economy to warrant protection? Mexico's economic nationalists...