Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LEAD, ZINC TARIFF will probably jump 100% to 200% soon to give depressed domestic producers a boost. With U.S. prices down to 14? per lb. for lead and 10? for zinc, Tariff Commission is expected to recommend doubling lead duty to 2.55?, tripling zinc tariff...
...usual the Western Hemisphere attracted the most dollars-$1.8 billion-yet Europe got $500 million in new investments, will probably get more this year as U.S. companies hurry to build plants in expectation of a tariff-free Common European Market...
...sugar surplus that was depressing world prices. Batista slapped on acreage quotas, gradually unloaded the excess, even shipping sugar to the U.S.S.R. Prices started a gradual climb, now stand 30% higher than in 1953. He imposed greater discipline on the country's labor unions, granted wide tax and tariff concessions to new industry. In a calculated gamble, he began spending part of the country's monetary reserves for public works and to help private capital finance new businesses...
Just by following a tariff debate in Congress, Baruch made his first sizable coup of $60,000 in a sugar stock. With it he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $19,000, and married a reserved Episcopal girl named Annie Griffen, who had waited eight years for Baruch to name the day despite her father's unyielding opposition to the match. The market operation that gave Baruch a head start on his first million was inadvertently affected by the holiest day in his own faith, Yom Kippur, on which, as on other holy days...
...onetime political reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Newsman Cox was overwhelmingly elected to Congress from Ohio's Third District in 1908 and 1910, fought hard for such causes as tariff reduction and antitrust laws, later became Ohio's only three-term governor. In the 1920 presidential campaign he promised ailing Woodrow Wilson: "We are going to be a million percent with you and your administration. That means the League of Nations." But in Warren Gamaliel Harding, able Orator Cox and his running mate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a young man he later came to differ with in political philosophy...