Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political moves last week were obeisances in the direction of democracy, and the $500,000,000 Chinese credit in the coffers of Washington's Import and Export Bank were frozen until Secretary of State Marshall approves the Chinese government. Now that Kuomintang party pride had stooped to allowing splinter groups in what had been its private preserve, the State Department can expect polite inquiries regarding the fund. It would do well to return equally polite replies-and no money-until next December gives the coolie a chance to decide upon his own government...
...growing U.S. resentment of his attitude, Maximos hastily declared that he had no objections to import controls. Meanwhile, encouraged by the U.S. promise, the Government started an all-out offensive against the Communist-led guerrillas in Macedonia and Thessaly, throwing in an estimated 60,000 troops, naval and air units...
...Britishers, Louie is Britain's much-talked-of "little fellow," hard-pressed but phlegmatic; to U.S. readers, most of whom do not know that the strip is a British import, he is the baffled cipher* who sits on every park bench. Hanan draws Louie once a week for London's whopping (circ. 4,500,000) weekly, The People, draws him five other days a week for the people across the Atlantic...
...American view, which alone exudes any positive or optimistic undertones, is that only through withdrawal of trade restrictions leading to greater volumes of world trade and production can any real prosperity be assured. To this end, American delegates are empowered by Congress to reduce tariffs on any import up to 50 percent, and this authority glitters as the chief American concession to foreign nations. In return, our Government is seeking a general world-wide reduction of tariff barriers, and an end to the British Empire preference system...
Billy Rose, Broadway showman-columnist, who got a look at postwar Europe on a junket about a year ago, decided to import 25 war orphans and raise them on the 125 acres he added last year to his 57-acre farm in Mt. Kisco...