Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payoff would come in expanding German exports of china and ceramics, of optical goods, leather goods, pharmaceuticals, and, of course, coal. To make some of these exports possible, the Joint German Economics Committee would have to import petroleum products, crude rubber, lead, hides, wool and cotton...
...slash $9 billion from the federal budget. This was a "minimum," he said. Senator Taft recently vowed that the Republicans could make a $13 billion cut once they got their hands on the budget. Some of the savings Taber saw would be in nonrecurring items (e.g.: food subsidies, Export-Import Bank, World Bank and World Fund). On other items Taber promised to use a sledge hammer if necessary. Items which immediately met his eye: $2.5 billion from Army & Navy; $2 billion in terminal-leave pay (already diminishing); $1.5 billion "in other categories"; a whopping $3 billion when the Republicans...
...Britain's labor government got out of the rubber business last week, thankful that it had lost only the tail of its shirt. After five years of state buying & selling, it declared that the market in rubber would be free: trading will begin next week, private buyers will import crude rubber beginning...
...affiliate of the nationwide Republican Open Forums backed by the Stassen wing of the G.O.P., the H.R.O.P. hopes to reach decisions on matters of national import and communicate these decisions to the national Republican leaders...
...chorus of U.S. business leaders last week sounded rather like these Gertrude Steinfuls. They flitted portentously around a subject of great import-a national bust. But they too never got down to brass tacks...