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...small, so poor, so hemmed about by tariff walls is the Austrian Republic that recently expansive Herr Andrew Thaler, Minister of Agriculture, called for Tyrolese volunteers whom he proposes to lead to Paraguay, there ' to found "a trans planted and purely agricultural Tyrol...
...President Hoover last week began to flex "injustices and inequalities" out of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. On the recommendations of his new Tariff Commission he cut the rates on woodflour (33¼"% to 25% ad valorem), pigskin leather (25% to 15%), straw hats ($4 per doz. plus 60% to $3 per doz. plus 50%), maple sugar (8? to 6? per lb.). Upped were the rates on woven wire fencing and netting (45% to 50% and 60%). Explanation of the Commission's celerity in investigating these rate cases was its use of foreign invoice values on imports...
Embargo, When Oil was not placed in the new Tariff Act last Spring, observers said that independent oilmen had shot their bolt. But the independents were not defeated so easily. Every time they have gathered, their cry of "Stop those imports!" has been more and more determined...
Wilbur's Switch? To reach its decision, the Senators took much testimony. Robert Giffen Stewart, president of Standard Oil of Indiana's big subsidiary, Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. was dead against any tariff, as well he might be since his company is one of the biggest importers of gasoline. Senator Tydings of Maryland was also opposed. He said a tariff would cost the U. S. people "at least $980,000,000 a year." Senator Tydings probably also had in mind the fact that when an experimental shipment of Soviet oil was lately made to the U. S. it arrived...
Favoring an oil tariff was Labor. Edward F. McGrady of the A. F. of L. lamented: "The condition of the oil-well workers is deplorable...