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...drastic boost in purchase tax, mostly on necessaries. Ironing boards, pot scourers, pastry boards, kitchen scales and shopping baskets, untaxed for the last nine years, will henceforth pay 30%. Items formerly taxed at 25%, e.g., bicycles and toothpaste, will now pay 30%; those at 50%, e.g., cars, TV sets and refrigerators, will...
...having drilled home the need for fast action, General Lonardi took some himself. He devalued the peso to 18 per dollar (from a scale that ranged, depending on the commodity involved, between five and 14). That was "decisive encouragement" for farmers, who in effect got an incentive-creating boost in the pesos they get for the dollars their exports earn abroad...
FREIGHT-RATE BOOST for U.S. railroads, originally granted on a temporary basis in 1952, will be made permanent. The Interstate Commerce Commission has canceled the expiration date (Dec. 31) of the rate hikes, will grant the 12% to 15% increases indefinitely. Without the boosts, roads would have lost an estimated $900 million in revenues next year...
...publishers, who spend nearly 80% of their newsprint budgets in Canada, protested that the boost will add $32 million a year to high operating costs, may actually squeeze some newspapers out of business. They pointed out that five Canadian newsprint producers showed profits of $25 million after taxes on $120 million in sales in the first half of 1955-up 21.6% over last year's first-half profits...
Behind the price boost lay the voracious U.S. appetite for newsprint, whetted by growing newspaper circulation (up 1,300,000 since 1950) and a 10% upsurge in advertising linage over 1954. U.S. demand for newsprint in the first nine months of 1955 has run 7.8% ahead of last year's level, highest in history, even though newsprint prices have soared since World War II from $50 to $127 a ton. Some smaller publishers have been forced to pay $50-a-ton premiums for newsprint on the flourishing grey market...