Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain legislation loomed in France last week, as of drastic import...
...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
Throughout the week Chancellor Seipel masked the import of his visit to Prague under the excuse that he was there to lecture on The World Outlook. This he dutifully did before a huge, enthusiastic audience in which sat and applauded Dr. Benes, biggest little statesman in Europe...
...silky moustache ... with half-closed eyes. 'Squealer,' he said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises and devices with which Squealer cloaks his criminal doings that no one, not even the reader, can guess who he is. Dangerous doings centre around a London import and export concern; there is jolly old Frank Sutton, who runs this company; his gen eral manager is a surly individual, Captain John Leslie, known to be an ex-convict, to whom Sutton in his generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie...
Italy has about 250,000 factories, of which less than 10% employ 10 or more persons each. Few good highways, little mineral resources and especially a paucity of coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores...