Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castries, capital of St. Lucia, the Marlin's chattering passengers quickly pass through British customs. They pay a 50?-a-gallon tariff on the French wine in their demijohns, but none on the high-duty Martinique rum hidden in their baskets. Ashore, they barter or sell their wine and rum, then go shopping. St. Lucia has the foodstuffs that bone-poor Martinique has had to do without...
...League for Reaction, opposed to Communists, the CIO, the AF of L, capital gains taxes, and additional antitrust laws, and for superiority of industry over labor, the reduction of taxes, a high tariff, ERP, aid to China, and property qualifications for voting, has been formed and will hold its first meeting within the next two weeks...
...Board a Greyhound bus at Park Square for Syracuse, changing there for Ithaca. Best runs scheduled are 1 p.m. today, arriving at Syracuse at 11:55 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. today, arriving Syracuse 5:55 a.m. tomorrow. Round trip tariff...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...Breaking down the tariff wall between Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg...