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...helped set up Governor Pat Brown's first administration in the 1950s, was a Deputy U.S. Attorney General in the 1960s, and now is chairman of the American Bar Association committee that reviews U.S. Supreme Court nominations. He also has been an adviser to the State Department on tariff policy. Willard Wirtz, 63, originally of Chicago, now a Washington lawyer, is a first-rate intellect, a rousing speechmaker, and did well as Secretary of Labor in the '60s and as adviser to both Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
...could partially exclude from the domestic price ceiling the oil that will begin by then to flow from Alaska. Such a move would raise overall domestic oil prices at a slightly faster rate. On the other hand, the bill would require Ford to jettison the $2 per bbl. tariff that he has imposed on imported oil, which now fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal...
...Measures to open new markets to the exports of developing states through tariff preferences and concessions...
Cozy Homesteads. Tweaking John Bull's nose proved costly. Through the 1930s, the British government raised tariff barriers. To counter Britain's economic warfare, De Valera promoted self-sufficiency. "Ireland her own," he intoned, "Ireland her own without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven." In 1937, the Free State declared itself a wholly independent country called Eire, thus severing the last of the links to England, and Dev became Taoiseach (pronounced tee-shock) or Prime Minister...
...billion in consumer living costs during the next year, or $400 to $800 for the average family of four. Those figures are probably too steep: they reflect guesses on how much oil increases might pull up prices of natural gas and coal and a belief that the $2 tariff would be retained, which has already been proved wrong. They also suggest a fear that higher oil prices will drive up prices of petrochemicals and many other products. The possibility of such a "ripple effect" is real indeed, though the congressional study may have overestimated...