Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, who have been importing 13,000 tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...normal course of Hollywood events, Cinemagnate David O. Selznick was rumored to have set the rent on his latest import, Italian Cinemactress Alida Valli. For one picture...
...committee compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
There was much to-do in Washington about Canada's buying of U.S. steel, because exports to all other countries are strictly controlled while the Dominion enjoys its preferential position within the U.S. economic union. Some Senators suspected that Canada fabricated its import of steel into consumption goods for un controlled export. Replied a high Canadian official: "It's just childish to talk about lack of controls." Canada has its own, just as tough as the U.S. brand. Of the Dominion's steel exports last year, he said, 86% was in ships and machinery needed to rebuild...
...France Dimanche is equally violent. Every week it hits 565,000 Frenchmen in the eyes with Corre's "American-style journalism." He was among the first to import American tricks: crack rewrite-men sharpen his news, splashy pictures-occasionally nudes-and sassy headlines decorate it, personality angles and impious gibes at national heroes help sell it. And a racy Gallic sauce-far hotter than anything U.S. tabloids dare dish out-flavors it. For balance-or to confuse the reader-Corre has printed Steinbeck on Russia, and serialized such books as Mr. Adam...