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...other choice is to import the extra copper. Imports are now kept out by a 4? tariff; since Chilean copper is priced in U. S. ports at 10? a pound, it cannot compete with domestic when domestic is less than 14?. First to plump for tariff reduction in the present emergency was one of the trade's stanchest Willkiemen, blond, conservative Fabricator C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. On the very September day that Wendell Willkie spoke against low copper prices in Anaconda's Butte, Fabricator Dallas spoke for a 12? ceiling in order...
Died. Dr. Frank W. Taussig, 80, for 53 years teacher of economics at Harvard, one of the founders of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, first U. S. Tariff Commission chairman, author of textbooks from which many a college student tried to learn economics; at Cambridge, Mass...
...member of the Faculty since 1882, Professor Taussig wrote many books on ciples of Economics" was the most comeconomic subjects, of which his "Prinprehensive. He became an authority on tariffs and world trade and served from 1917 to 1919 as chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission...
...years after going through both the Graduate and Law Schools, Professor Taussig published his "Tariff History of the United States," which still is a standard work on the subject. Later came his "Silver Situation in the U. S.," "Wages and Capital," and a series of more specialized works...
Said the court: "We think that Congress, in the use of the word 'plant,' was speaking in the common language of the people." The court also recalled that the Supreme Court once classed the tomato as a vegetable for tariff purposes, although scientists call it a fruit...