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Teapot Tempest. The immediate sector was the renewed fight over subsidies-an issue more boring to the average citizen than the oldtime tariff, and much less understandable...
Last week little Paraguay signed two treaties, one with Bolivia, the other with Argentina. They looked like the most innocent of treaties (tariff reductions, roads, loans, a pipeline, cultural exchanges). Actually, they were move and countermove in an intricate diplomatic campaign being waged by Argentina for commercial and possibly political control of her smaller neighbors...
...said, had more than justified the independence granted her in 1934, had notably helped the war effort by growing cryptostegia (which may be called rubber, said Franklin Roosevelt, because it is rubber). Then he said he hoped that after he leaves the White House the Congress will not raise tariff walls against natural rubber just to keep some synthetic plants going. "I believe in cheap tires and more of them," he said, "and the only way to get that is to use the tires that are made by nature, whether it be rubber, or guayule, or cryptostegia." These words cast...
Continuance of present U.S. tariff structures...
...striking total of 54.8% of executives for downward revision of the tariff...