Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indonesia Baker found that there were not only two separate governments at present but also two different currencies, two different codes of export-import regulations, two different exchange control administrations. One thing that both sides agreed on, so far as TIME was concerned, was that they wanted their copies of TIME. The problem of supplying the Dutch and Indonesians living in areas under Dutch administration was simple, requiring only the signing of contracts with the Netherlands East Indies government and with a commercial distributor. Although copies of TIME were already moving across the military perimeter into Indonesian territory (where they...
While we were 75% self-sustaining as far as wool was concerned prior to the war, we must now import more than 70% of our requirements. . . . We are following a dangerous path in permitting ourselves to become dependent on any foreign power for a material as basically and vitally necessary as wool...
This eager import of modernities (even a grandfather's clock that Liberia ordered had to be modern) was an expression of the country's deep desire to catch up with other nations...
...Prophet. Joseph Smith explained that the Book of Mormon was the new expression of the everlasting Gospel. The import of this revelation was clear. Joseph Smith was God's Prophet, Seer, Revelator and mouthpiece. On the raw frontier in Jackson County, Mo., he established the "true church." Thousands flocked to him-and were persecuted with him-until, after eight years of moving, mobbings, house burnings and guerrilla warfare, Smith sent the Mormons into Illinois. There they began building a new temple, and a new town: Nauvoo...
...next twelve months, he said, Britain must import $6.8 billion worth of goods, even to keep something like her present austere standard of living. In that period Britain cannot hope to earn by exports more than $5 billion. Even by using up the rest of the U.S. loan, Britain would end up in the red. And in less than a year, there would not even be the loan to fall back...