Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war only about 13,000,000 tons of wheat had to be imported by countries that could not grow all they needed. But the war and natural disasters sent import needs skyrocketing. Europe, which imported less than 4,000,000 tons of wheat a year before the war, needed 15,400,000 tons this crop year from the 1945 harvest to the 1946. Asia and Africa, which normally imported only 2,400,000 tons, have needed almost 11,000,000 tons. All in all, needy countries came begging for 32,000,000 tons of wheat this year instead...
...Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
...industry is Exhibit A. The steel office desk he makes sells at $40 more than the competing U.S. import. Without protection, he will have to lower prices, maybe lose money. Does an industry like his contribute enough to Mexican economy to warrant protection? Mexico's economic nationalists answer...
...first semiannual report to Congress, the Export-Import Bank said that foreign trade should be returned to private channels as rapidly as possible. It feared that continued buying by foreign missions might lead to their permanent establishment in the U.S. This would enable foreign governments to 1) use their mass purchasing power to by-pass ordinary trade channels, 2) squeeze U.S. brand names out of foreign markets. In effect, the U.S. hope of free trade would be smothered by the state traders...
...missions, out of a total of some 115, have gone home. And as the British Government tightened its grip on foreign trade, there were few signs that any other governments were going to stop centralized purchasing. U.S. foreign traders thought they knew what the U.S. should do. The Export-Import Bank, said they, should make no loans unless foreign trade is returned to private hands...