Word: trade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since 1955 increased competition from abroad has spurred tariff lobbying, the traditionally free-trade South has become increasingly protective about its new industry, and recent signs of recession in an election year have made all Congressmen sensitive to claims that imports are throwing U.S. citizens out of work; the high-tariff camp never mentions that 4,500,000 U.S. citizens earn their living from foreign trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel...
...floor of the Senate this week, Ike's endangered bill got a sturdy boost from Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas, who brought back from a recent fact-finding tour of Western Europe new reasons why the U.S. should push for freer trade. Douglas' key points...
...speech was a piece of blunt advice relayed to Ike from Capitol Hill Democratic leaders: the President ought to set aside two 15-minute periods a week for talking to individual Republicans, face to face or by telephone, to jack up congressional support in his own party for reciprocal trade...
Exhibits of Despotism. As for the vaunted Russian aid, Dulles pointed out that the Russian figures are misleading, since the Russians count trade in their totals, e.g., the money they pay Egypt for its cotton and Syria for its wheat. On that basis, U.S. aid to pact member countries alone amounted to $2.2 billion last year, and to about $10 billion over a five-year period. This could be compared with the $300 million Russia claims to be giving Syria over the next five years. Furthermore, said Dulles, the Russians have concentrated their aid in areas that have special strategic...
...Europe. But massive outlays for supplies abroad, plus the war in Algeria, plus openhanded spending under Guy Mollet's Socialist government at home, reduced gold and hard-money reserves to an untouchable minimum. Overbuying of raw materials last year and speculation against the franc helped put foreign trade out of balance by $1.4 billion...