Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City's Latter-day Saints' College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study. In 1929 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust...
...years ago the dining halls lost $1,825 and lowered the board rate. But last year they went t$9,991 into the black and have just raised their tariff...
...H.A.A. budget, yet we do set forth the proposition that the H.A.A. is imposing severe limits on our budgets. Our food prices might go up and we have no recourse, our beds may not be made and we have no recourse, and again when the H.A.A. levies a tariff on us via our dates, we have virtually no recourse. There only remains the cruel choice of going dateless or rooting Harvard football in Sunday post mortems...
...message to the World Bankers President Eisenhower spoke up for "the gradual and selective revision of [U.S.] tariffs." But the British were more impressed by the fact that the Randall Commission's tariff-slicing recommendations have not been enacted, that the tariff was raised on Swiss watches, and that the U.S. Tariff Commission has just started hearings on the plea of U.S. bicycle makers for a higher tariff and an import quota on foreign-made bicycles. (British bicycle sales in the U.S. have increased from...
...plenty available and, consequently, when prices were low. Though operating under a heading of military necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile buying. In fiscal 1955 stockpiling lead and zinc will cost the U.S. close to $250 million. Furthermore, some $400 million of 1955's $900 million...