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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His points were: 1) The farm bill, with its board and its money, will put the Government farther into business than ever before "if it means what it says"; 2) It implies "price-fixing . . . barter and sale, buying and borrowing" by the U. S.; 3) To accept the bill'...
Farmers looked at what they got, at what they had asked and frowned. Flaxseed had been held at 56¢ per lb. when they had demanded an 84¢ duty. Their 15¢ butter rate had been spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free...
Building Materials. On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of...
Perspective. To fit the Tariff into a broader economic perspective, Chairman Hawley pointed out that the total domestic trade of the U. S. averages 90 billion dollars per year, foreign trade nine billions. Of this foreign trade, five billions are in exports, four billions in imports. Of the imports two...
Consumers' View. An immediate question was: What effect will this bill, if and when enacted, have upon the cost of living? Such politicians as Massachusetts' Senator Walsh were quick to raise the old cry of "outrageous and exorbitant duties on food products," to predict direful increases in household expenses. More...