Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more summer visitors than usual. The $100,000.000 worth of materials used in building the fair have come from every corner of the U. S. Labor has benefited by some 96,000,000 man-hours. American Express Co. reports an 8 to 10% increase in export and import freight due to the fair. Railroads, airlines, busses joyously await "the greatest travel movement in history...
...Americans concerns itself with the time dishonored custom of kissing in public. whether such a fad can be hailed as a sign of the advent of free love, or whether it is significant of the moral decay of our younger generation is indeed a question of the utmost import. At any rate, as one noted educator put it recently, "... it's certainly more fun than goldfish..." His views were contested by a necessarily anonymous Harvardian who protested that there was a marked similarity between the two practices...
...Foreign manufacturers would then pay less for raw cotton than U. S. manufacturers. So let import quotas be imposed on textiles to protect the home market, and offer further subsidies to domestic manufacturers to help them compete in foreign markets...
Moldiest of all, however, is the fact that Czecho-Slovakian economy rested on its ability to import raw materials and export the finished product. Now that it is brought inside the closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered...
...credit from the Export-Import Bank to pay off by June 28, 1941 outstanding indebtedness to U. S. exporters, an estimated additional $50,000,000 credit to be available for future exports...