Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Workshop's program for the broadcast of ten programs dealing with topics of social and political import in America is well under way with script writing for the subjects already begun and expected to be completed before the Christmas vacations...
...down payment of $1,200,000 and a balance of $2,300,000 to be financed later (probably by the U. S. Export-Import Bank), President Moore and Treasurer McCormack sold 14 of their old (19-21 years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil it was a good deal. It stepped up her Government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro Line fleet to 62 ships, gave her urgently needed bottoms for carrying her coffee and raw materials overseas now that war has swept most belligerents' ships from the seas...
...arrangement by which Japan, without spending any of her mite-sized gold supply, got machinery, chemicals, etc. in return for some goods but mostly for bothering Britain in the East. These will now have to be bought mostly in the U. S., thereby enlarging Japan's already big import balance and the problem of paying for the war goods she needs...
...Ever since Japan took on the Chinese war, she has been buying twice as much as she has sold to the U. S. Her import balance in U. S. trade for the first seven months of 1939 was 258,000,000 yen. To replace German imports, to get deliveries before the Allies buy the output of U. S. factories, and before the U. S.-Japan trade treaty expires next January, the Japanese have boosted their U. S. purchases by approximately one-third. That put Japan on the spot...
...Argentina 385,000,000) it is not self-sufficient. Relatively mild climate makes U. S. wool fine-fibred, usable only for apparel, draperies, upholstery, etc. Yet in the apparel class alone the U. S. produces only 70% of its consumption, had to import 94,000,000 lbs. in 1937. With the chief suppliers, Australia and New Zealand (1937 aggregate, 51,000,000 lbs.), now out of the market, wool producers today can see bright days ahead...