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...been partially, temporarily, deadened. For Standard Oil Co. of Indiana finally agreed that for 90 days it will curtail its Venezuela production and imports by 23%. This compares to a 25% reduction by Royal Dutch-Shell. Although independent oilmen have wanted a total embargo or at least a tariff, this voluntary partial curtailment of imports was welcomed by them. Coming a week before the meeting of the Federal Oil Conservation Board, it will give that body something concrete to work upon, said Secretary Wilbur...
Nothing so exasperates farmers and their friends as to hear a friend of the manufacturers and their Tariff talk scornfully about Government-nurtured Prosperity. A howl of protest went up in Washington against Senator Reed's suggestion. Charles Collins Teague, the Farm Board's vice chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board...
...Tariff-Born Moves. Fortnight ago, faced by the new Canadian tariff, Nash Motors with Durant Motors of Canada, Ltd. formed a subsidiary to make automobiles at Leaside, Ont. Last week there were two other tariff-born moves. Reo Motor Car Co. took over the old Dodge Brothers plant at Toronto, will be making Canadian Reos shortly. Hupp Motor Car Corp. started work on a plant at Windsor, Ont., will be in production within 90 days...
...disgrace to European statecraft was the final adjournment in Geneva last week of the three-year-old League of Nations conference to promote a general European tariff truce (TIME, Sept...
...weeks ago, the object being to elect one Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter. This inoffensive knight, the irregular Conservative candidate, was not originally the presslords' mannikin. He entered the lists at St. George's supported by a dignified group of manufacturers who wanted to air the issue of high protective tariffs v. low protective tariff or "safeguarding." Sir Ernest Petter was to advocate high tariffs, and the regular Conservative candidate. Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of beauteous Lady Diana Manners, would of course support "safeguarding," the official party policy. In this way some very instructive debate would...