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...disastrous gap in the revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed to offset the continued small circulation...
...Ottawa Agreements of 1932 giving preferential tariff treatment (to Dominion exporters) gave H. R. MacMillan Export Co. a big boost. So naturally Lumberman MacMillan is as loyal to the Empire as to Canada. As the head of Canada's shipbuilding program, he may well have one of the Empire's most important posts...
Hence they have little incentive to put them up in cans; most of the tinned beef sold in the U. S. already is packed in South America. In 1939 the Navy got a bid of 9.?7 a Ib. (not counting tariff) against a low bid of 23.6/ for U. S. tinned beef. Yet when President Roosevelt proposed that the Navy accept the Argentine bid (at a saving of $6,672), sectionally-minded Congressmen like Scrugham tied his hands...
This was banned from the U. S. by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930), which prohibits importation from countries infected with hoof-&-mouth disease (Argentina is one. Others: Ireland and Britain- }. Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina, has never had hoof-&-mouth disease, is protected from the nation's chief cattle-growing regions by a mountain range and 200 miles of desert. The least Argentina expects from a Good Neighbor is permission to ship fresh meat from Patagonia. A convention negotiated by the sympathetic U. S. State Department in 1935 would give them this permission...
...company offered $37,500 for three minutes of advertising, one minute at the game's beginning, one at the half, and one at the end. The little sports are stacked up against three minutes of gasoline. But gasoline is surely no more "commercial" than the present high tariff on hot dogs and peanuts, program advertising, and tickets at three-thirty a shot...