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...Haitian border village of Belladére. Guns banged again, champagne glasses clicked and officials of the two republics and their ladies danced Dominican and Haitian méringues. Before the historic day was over, the two Presidents had agreed to 1) take joint measures against Communism, 2) grant tariff and other trade concessions, 3) arrange supervision of migratory workers crossing the frontier, 4) work out rules for treatment of each other's political exiles...
High school and grammar students in Massachusetts pay student commuting fares, but college and university students have always paid the full tariff...
...Within this vast single market, customs duties for coal & steel will be abolished. So will differential freight charges (i.e., cheaper rates for export over domestic markets). Inefficient mines and mills will be closed. This will apply particularly to Belgium, where a protective tariff has kept alive a number of sub-par enterprises. Within five years Belgian coal production will decline from 28 million to 23 million tons; owners of doomed mines will be compensated from an "equalization fund" contributed mainly by France and Germany; and the Belgian coal price, now 55% higher than the German, will fall to the single...
...spent much of his time talking bitterly to a few followers at the mountain home of Blanca Canales Torresola, cousin of the man shot dead last week on the steps of Blair-Lee House. Most Puerto Ricans had come to realize that independence, with the accompanying loss of tariff advantages and tax refunds, would be economic suicide. And in recent years, Puerto Rico had won more & more self-rule. Only two years ago Puerto Ricans had elected their own governor for the first time; last weekend, just before the rebellious Nationalists struck, the islanders were to register for a plebiscite...
...July 4, 1946, the U. S. pulled out of the Philippine Islands, leaving behind a democratic American-styled government. In the same year, however, passage of the Bell Act provided that Philippine trade would be directed toward the United States by tariff preferences, that the Islands' natural resources be open to U. S. businessmen on an equal footing with Filipinos, that the currency be pegged to the American dollar, and that Philippine profits and capital could not be moved to the U. S. without consent of the American president...