Word: importance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ford went right to work. His Middle East man, Walter McKee, after talks with Israeli purchasing agents, sounded out the possibilities of an assembly plant near Haifa. The plant would import U.S. foremen and technicians to train unskilled Israeli labor in U.S. production techniques, wherever possible use Israel-made goods for parts...
...Israelis signed their first big deal, a $4,000,000 contract for 1,800 U.S.-made trucks and buses, which Ford will start shipping this fall. The terms: Israel will put up 40%, or $1,600,000 in cash (from a $100 million credit already advanced by the Export-Import Bank), and Ford will give Israel a three-year credit for the 60% balance...
Cripps had no such intention. His remedy for the crisis was still the same: more austerity and more import cuts. This week he will meet with Dominion Finance Ministers who have been invited to London to discuss ways & means of conserving the sterling area's dollars...
Surprise Witness. Murphy politely refused the bait-he wanted to impress the jury, through sheer boredom if necessary, of the size and the import of the material which Chambers said he had received from Hiss, the onetime State Department bright young man, for transmission to Soviet Russia. He kept at his slow task for two days, while Stryker paced the corridor outside, clutching a chewed cigar and frowning with impatience...
...Glory. The three Davis followers were Anders Clarin, 37, a Swede who had spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they...