Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Martin amendment Wilbur Mills was willing to take a chance on reporting out the bill. But reciprocal trade is still a long way from being out of the woods. The first House floor battle will come on the issue of a closed rule -a rule that would bar amendments from the floor. To get that rule, Wilbur Mills is willing to retreat from the five-year reciprocal-trade extension to a three-year extension...
Combined Opposition. After that the program faces the opposition of protectionists who have, for the first time in years, combined in support of a single rival bill. Authored by Pennsylvania's Republican Richard Simpson, it is openly designed to gut reciprocal trade. The key battle will come on a motion to send the reciprocal-trade bill back to the Ways & Means Committee, with orders that it approve the Simpson substitute...
...week's end, as the reciprocal-trade program moved toward the House floor, leaders of both parties were industriously counting House noses -and the future of liberalized foreign trade as a vital U.S. answer to Communist economic aggression hung in the balance...
...display on new cars the manufacturer's suggested retail price, the cost of each accessory and a total delivery price. Bill's aim: to eliminate the price pack, a device used by some dealers to raise the total price on new cars to balance off generous trade-in allowances on old models...
...from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations of the Roman Catholic faithful knocked on doors, organized dances, showed documentary films depicting De Gasperi's life, the Hungarian revolt, and the economic progress made under Christian Democratic rule...