Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exchanged badinage with admirers, received presents, indulged in wisecracks. For all their friendliness, his listeners acted more like a vaudeville audience than a political crowd. They were vastly entertained by Harry's whipcracks at the Republican elephant. But they did not seem particularly impressed by the import of what they heard; at times they seemed almost to shrug, good-humoredly, at Harry's more intemperate statements...
...storage, as much as 80% of the wheat crop has been lost to rats and rot. Lacking storage space, farmers often sell at panic prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
Commerce. The Department of Commerce said that U.S. exports slumped 8% in June, down $89,800,000 from May's $1,102,900,000. Imports rose $66,300,000 to $615,600,000. Much of the import increase was due to a phenomenal step-up in British exports to the U.S. For the first six months of 1948 they ran 50% higher than in 1947, and paid for one-third of Britain's U.S. needs...
Last _year, when Uruguay's dollars threatened momentarily to run out, import controls were clamped on "luxuries" including washing machines, automobiles, electrical equipment. What is more, they were honestly and firmly administered. Today she has enough dollars to buy not only gasoline and oil (about $20 million a year) but also to grant import permits for automobiles with reasonable liberality...
Some Europeans had a deep sense of the human import of the Philadelphia story. Wrote Rome's II Tempo: "What portends there-elephants, bands ... a gigantic circus? [It] is a manifestation of that peculiar exuberance typical of American democracy . . ." A more thoughtful analysis came from Britain's Rebecca West, who was covering the convention for U.S. and British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages...