Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Employes of the Bureau of Customs pondered a problem last week that had never confronted them before. It had to do with Chinese ears. Was it legal to import them from China? Were they dutiable? How should they be shipped? If the ears that were troubling the Bureau were to be transported with the customary Chinese between each pair, the problem might have been passed on to the Immigration Service. As it was, the ears were to be imported unattached. After thumbing many documents and consulting the Public Health Service and the Post Office Department, the Customs Bureau decided that...
Said the New York Academy of Medicine's Dr. lago Galdston: "There is no reason to import ears from another country. There are enough ears here now and, aside from that, all ears are alike whether American or Chinese...
...general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal Dunkards have succeeded in lifting restrictions against such "vanities" as automobiles, telephones and lace curtains, church members who keep musical instruments (e.g. radios...
...home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation is restricted in any year to 2% of its total immigrants in the past 50 years...
...with all production-control schemes, purpose of the Chadbourne plan was to raise prices. They dropped. In 1930 the average world price of sugar was1½?per Ib. In 1932 it was 10?, considerably below the cost of production. With tariffs and import quotas keeping the world market limited without any limit on the amount of sugar dumped in London, the price has remained depressed. Last week raw sugar at Cuban docks was quoted on Manhattan's Coffee & Sugar Exchange at 1.18? per Ib., with domestic contracts being made...