Word: tariff
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...Before vetoing the new Tariff bill which deprives him of his flexing power, the President circulated it at the State, Treasury and Commerce Departments for expert opinion as to why it should be killed...
...Austrian Empire after the War the Allies broke up the important economic unit of the Danube valley whose very economic existence depends upon free trade within itself, and substituted for it the three small states of modern Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; each of these has built up a tariff barrier of its own with the result that trade among those countries is at an extremely...
...increased exemption, Government clerks who clapped and cheered with delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced to an arbitrary $10,000 maximum...
...president. Cried he to stockholders: "Foreign matches, generally inferior, not handled by your company [or any other U. S. match manufacturer], continue to be sold in this country at ridiculously low, uneconomic and unwarranted prices in violation of the spirit of both the U. S. anti-dumping and tariff laws. . . . Book matches, due to destructive competition, uneconomic merchandising and overproducing power, dropped to a record low level for the year. ... All match prices in the U. S. are absurdly...
Unwanted by U. S. airway operators because of costly upkeep and a 30% tariff should they buy her, DO-X has no job waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...