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...exports each year goes to the Common Market, despite tariffs that average 160%. Since some European governments depend heavily on tobacco duties for their revenues, U.S. tobacco men do not expect any tariff reductions. But they do hope that the new trade act will enable Washington to forestall steeper Common Market barriers against U.S. tobacco. Cries Tobacco Institute President George V. Allen: "If we get frozen out of the Common Market, the adverse effect on the American to bacco industry will be tremendous...
...minor sensation wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
They all work smoothly, bending forward from the hips, pulling and not chopping, in long easy strokes. They like best to work up hills, the steeper the better, for it means less back-bending work. And from some immemorial, ingrained habit, we always worked from left to right across the field...
Disposable Income. After allowing for prices and higher taxes, has real income kept pace with productivity? Yes, said C.E.D. Using its 1954 constant-dollar test, and allowing for steeper taxes, C.E.D. found that from 1929 to 1957 per capita disposable income also rose 1.6% a year. Since 1947, the rise has been almost 2% and gave the average U.S. citizen in mid-1959 a real income 26% higher than in 1947 and 60% higher than...
WASHINGTON, May 17--The climb in national output in the first three months of 1959 was steeper than preliminary figures indicated, the government reported today...