Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...import side, there were slight declines in the dollar-volume of foodstuffs, raw materials and semi-manufactures, but an increase in manufactures. The manufactures item indicated increased competition from abroad and illustrated that price-reductions were also the cause of shrinkage in dollar-volume of imports. Quantitatively, 1928 imports increased nearly 3% over 1927 and the total was record-breaking...
...tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
...been voided by Attorney General Sargent, Dr. Work cited a letter written by Senator Walsh last winter in which the Inquisitor had said: "I am unable to understand how the Government can escape the obligation to renew the contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion at that time was tentative. Further investigation of the Salt Creek affair...
Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
...first step came in 1903, when an Englishman named Fred Lowenadler guided the merger of six factories into the Jonkopings och Vulcans Tandstickfabriks-aktiebolag. Ten years went by before the remaining import companies were led by Ivar Kreuger into the Aktiebolaget Forenade Svenska Tandstickfabriker. These two combines functioned independently until 1917, when they agreed on a cost-saving and letter-saving merger. They became, briefly, the Svenska Tandsticksaktiebolaget. Translated literally, they became the Swedish Match...