Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the flood was subsiding. A new Board of Trade ruling required the invaders to take out import licenses. The market had once more been made safe for the British publishers, even if they couldn't supply...
...your article on Chile (TIME, Aug. 19) you refer to a place where "each year more babies die than are born." It seems to me that to achieve that they would have to import babies from other more fortunate places...
...national anthem now bounce in samba time. Last week in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...
...Baku brought nothing for Brazil. If import-hungry Latins had hoped that the U.S.S.R. could help them sooner than the U.S. or Britain, with possibly a captured German factory or two, the Soviets had failed them sadly. In the first five months of 1946 Russia had sent only $93.58 worth of goods to Argentina, since then only one cargo of Polish coal. Uruguayans who had signed a trade treaty with the Soviets earlier this month were still looking for Russian goods...
Married. Prince Louis II, 76, ruler of the pocket principality of Monaco, whose most valuable import is tourist money gambled at Monte Carlo; and Ghyslaine Domanget, 46, onetime French actress; in Monte Carlo...