Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...
...Anglo-American negotiators agreed to do as much as they could to break down bilateralism and expand world markets. The proposals for an International Trade Organization (ITO) which the State Department's shrewd Will Clayton drafted months ago got full British support "on all important points." This global trade charter, sent last week to other nations for study, outlined plans to revise or abolish such trade restrictions as import quotas, export subsidies, tariff preferences, cartels and dumping schemes...
...Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel...
With other legislation, onetime Congressional favorite Harry Truman was making about the same speed (not one bill of major import reached the White House last week). Sample stymies...
...European producers of sulphur :-a vital Canadian import because it is used in the Dominion's big pulp industry -rigged the sulphur market to enable...