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...goods and sold the U. S. $503,000,000 of her goods. In 1930 Mr. King was succeeded as Prime Minister by Richard Bedford Bennett, and under his Conservative Administration Canada began to follow the same Depression policy that the U. S. followed under President Hoover: piling up tariffs and trade restrictions to protect her shrinking home markets from imported goods. In 1933. when President Hoover retired. Canada bought only $210,000,000 of U. S. goods, sold only $185,000,000 of goods to the U. S. Not until last month, when Canada's Liberals were returned...
...forecast yet anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans are trying to steal our clothes on that issue...
...blatant issues which have no real existence, Mr. King has charged that a vote for Bennett was a vote to conscript Canadians to fight the battles of the League of Nations and the Mother Country, while Mr. Bennett in alluding to Japanese cut-price dumping and Liberal low-tariff talk, has thundered nonsensically, "My opponent is on the side of Japan...
...light in weight, requiring the use of more bushels per barrel of flour. The surpluses piled up prior to 1933 are nearly exhausted, and before the next harvest U. S. millers must import perhaps 50,000,000 bu. of high-grade Canadian grain over a 42¢-per-bu. tariff...
...effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked that the Springfield concern seemed primarily engaged in the "lawsuit business...