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...Tariff Commission's recommendation President Hoover last week upped the duty on green peas (3? to 3.9? per lb.) and McKay sewed shoes (20% to 30%). He downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50? per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans...
...Tariff. "I am opposed to any general congressional revision. Such action would prolong the Depression...
With I. C. C. approval roads were free to put increased rates into effect one day after revising their tariff schedules...
...Learned from Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour that Britain's emergency tariff on industrial products (TIME, Nov. 30) will shortly be extended to tax up to 100% imports of fresh cherries, currants, gooseberries, hothouse grapes, plums and strawberries ; fresh asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, chicory, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, mushrooms, green peas, new potatoes, tomatoes and turnips; cut flowers, plants in flower, bulbs, foliage and rose trees...
...tariff is the Gulf Stream of politics. It flows through both parties, and each is trying to catch the other in bathing and steal his clothes...