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Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result...
Allied also chose to walk alone in the chemical industry, ignoring its competitors' new policies and products until it slowly and surely passed judgment on the innovation. Partly, that was due to its remoteness from the public: its customers are steady and its products standard. A farmer may spread...
Imports or exports-which create the more employment? Last week, in connection with "Foreign Trade Week," the American Manufacturers Export Association issued a booklet giving a startling answer-Imports. This conclusion was based on findings indicating that the average cost of imported goods landed in the U. S. represents only...
In his second Godkin Lecture delivered yesterday and entitled "Planned Economy in an Oppressive State," Lewis W. Douglas attacked the authoritarian thesis from two angles: a mistaken conception of the State, and the harm which such a State must bring to the consumer.
Most businessmen have their own idea of how to promote a bull market, and last week at the American Chemical Society meeting in Manhattan the chemical industry took its turn at sounding off, incidentally setting new records for grandiose promises of what business could do if the Government would let...