Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
Daily the university is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
...shall not be lawful to import any hen or duck eggs in shell into the United Kingdom, nor to sell or expose for sale in the United Kingdom any imported hen or duck eggs in shell, unless they bear an indication of origin...
...year is about three times the value of the cups of cocoa. The bean was originally grown in South America, was transplanted to Africa some 35 years ago. Now the African Gold Coast produces more than half the world's supply. Sweet-loving U. S. citizens import approximately one-third of the world-production...
Professor Young was one of the world's leading economists, an authority on markets, tariffs, distribution, obstacles to the free movement of trade, and export and import problems. He was head of the Department of Economics at Harvard until 1927, when he went to England to become professor of political economy in the University of London. At the time of his death, he held a prominent place at Geneva as president of the sub-committee on commerce and marketing problems of the preparatory committee, for the international economic conference of the League of Nations...