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...basis of the U.S. State Department's policy would be Cordell Hull's 1934 Trade Agreements Act. With that Act Hull had attacked the economic nationalism of high tariffs-not only in the U.S. but in all countries. Hull did not advocate unrestricted free trade but trade free of "malignant restrictions''; he demanded reasonable tariffs reduced reciprocally for mutual benefit. This was the delicate flower which Under Secretary of State Will Clayton now cultivated...
Under the "Hull program the U.S. has negotiated reciprocal agreements with 29 nations. Concessions have been made in 1,250 tariff items. Had any U.S. industries suffered as a result? The principal complaints came from, makers of pottery, watches, handmade glassware and lace; and from the cattle industry. But, according to State, those U.S. enterprises have not really been hurt by lower tariffs. Cattlemen, for example, complained that during 1936 a shipment of Canadian cattle had depressed the Minneapolis market. State countered that large cattle shipments frequently depress markets, locally and temporarily; a shipment from South Dakota might have...
Fossil Punts. In Britain, where amateur archeologists rummage for everything from Piltdown Man to Saxon arrowheads, two Yorkshire brothers struck pay mud in the River Humber. Since boyhood, Ted and William Wright had scoured the country near Hull, looking for likely sites. Best bet, they decided, was a mud bank in the Humber; it ought to be full of interesting stuff washed down the river since ancient days...
...Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...
...part token, they had picked for next week's presidential elections two ultra-moderate candidates: Enrique Hertzog, 49-year-old surgeon who fought Dictator-President Villarroel and went to jail for it; and short, balding Luis Fernando Guachalla, 47, ex-Minister to Washington and friend of Cordell Hull. Both had helped run the melancholy Chaco War with Paraguay. (Last week, while the two old-line nominees campaigned in the interior, dissident laborites in La Paz put up a third candidate, General Felix Tavera. He figured to run third...