Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the agreement, Chile would ship coal, iron and copper to Argentina. But, said other critics, after the new steel plant at Concepción is completed in 1949, Chile will have no coal to export, may even have to import coal from the U.S. to keep going. In the end, they were sure Argentina would get a stranglehold on Chile's economy...
...House system and steady increase in class size which the Report explicitly set out to remedy. Pointing out that the "cornerstone of the Harvard alumni organization is the class," the Report offers a blueprint intended "to bring order out of chaos" on a matter of long-range import...
...state, but he won the election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
...million credit loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank was not particularly disturbing, nor were the new restrictions (a limit of $150 a year) on pleasure travel in the U.S. Restrictions on imports from the U.S. were harder to take. Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott said they would be "temporary." But for the time being (best estimate: three to five years) Canadians would do without U.S. cars, radios, refrigerators, jewelry, candy, fresh fruits and vegetables. Even less welcome was the new 25% excise tax on goods manufactured in Canada out of U.S. parts...
...impracticality and expense. As an impartial voice the Alumni Bulletin deserves the Senator's attention. The Bulletin backs the poll, pointing out that the estimated $5000 cost of printing and mailing a ballot with explanatory covering matter to 100,000-odd Alumni seems small in terms of the certain import of the results...